(Arches Court). Angl. court of appeal for the Archdiocese or Province of Canterbury. Named after St. Mary of the Arches (Lat. de Arcubus, rare ablative plural of arcus; cf. Vulgate 2 Esd 4:13), London, where it formerly met; the ch. took its name from arches of the original 11th-c. ch. on the site.
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