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.