Ăn’ărch-y, n.

n. [Gr. ἀναρχία, Fr. anarchie. See AN-ARCH.] 1. Want of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power, or where the laws are not efficient, and individuals do what they please with impunity; political confusion. Spread anarchy and terror all around. Cowper. 2. Hence, confusion in general. There being then . . . an anarchy, as I may term it, in authors and their reckoning of years. Fuller.