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Webster 1913 Edition
Anarchy
1.
Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion.
Spread
anarchy
and terror all around. Cowper.
2.
Hence, confusion or disorder, in general.
There being then . . . an
anarchy
, as I may term it, in authors and their re[GREEK]koning of years. Fuller.
Webster 1828 Edition
Anarchy
AN'ARCHY
,Noun.
Want of government; a state of society, when there is no law or supreme power, or when the laws are not efficient, and individuals do what they please with impunity; political confusion.