a. rare. [f. as prec. + -AL 2.]

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  1.  Without government; anarchic.

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1824–9.  Landor, Imag. Conv. (1846), I. 135. Calling those bodies of men anarchal which are in a state of effervescence.

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  2.  Tending to, or involving, anarchy; anarchical.

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1824–9.  Landor, Imag. Conv., I. 36. The anarchal doctrines of the popish priesthood.

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  3.  = ANARCH a.

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1840.  J. Sterling, in Blackw. Mag., XLVII. 528.

        High-sated wealth, decorous pride of place,
    Mankind’s anarchal kings;
And Science, blindly wrapping round its face
    The veil it draws from things.

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