Definition of "architectonic"

architectonic wisdom

1684, Robert Boyle, On the High Veneration Man’s Intellect owes to God

these architectonic functions

1870, John Campbell Shairp, Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations

We do not of course always, or even often, find the moral principles clearly and consciously expressed or consistently supported, but we cannot but feel that they are present in the shape of instincts, and those instincts pervading and architectonic.

1874, Ernest Myers, The Extant Odes of Pindar, translated into English, Introduction, page 15

Because the poems are an investigation into the nature of time, it is important to be aware of the overall temporal architectonic of the love-cycle.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 167

The question of commandeering social space and, by extension, reviving a public sphere could well be developed within the architectonic of Bakhtin's theory.

2013, Isher-Paul Sahni, “More than Horseplay”, in Studies in Popular Culture, volume 35, page 71