An"arch*y (?), n. [Gr. ?: cf. F.
anarchie. See Anarch.] 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?koning of years.
Fuller.