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Webster 1913 Edition


Anarch

An′arch

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Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK] without head or chief;
ἀν
priv. + [GREEK] beginning, the first place, magistracy, government.]
The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt.
Milton.
Imperial
anarchs
doubling human woes.
Byron.

Webster 1828 Edition


Anarch

AN'ARCH

,
Noun.
[See Anarchy.] The author of confusion; one who excites revolt.

Definition 2024


anarch

anarch

English

Noun

anarch (plural anarchs)

  1. The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
    • 1830, George Gordon Byron, Thomas Moore (editor), poem fragment, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, Volume 1, page 302,
      One rank'd in some recording page / With the worst anarchs of the age, / Him wilt thou know — and, knowing, pause,
    • 1969, Henry Miller, The Books in My Life, page 82,
      Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
    • 1910, Elbert Hubbard, Fra Magazine: A Journal of Affirmation, January 1910 to June 1910, page One Hundred,
      As all the world knows, Emma Goldman is the chief anarch of her time.

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