a. [f. Gr. ἄναρχ-ος (see ANARCH) + -IC; after ἀρχικός. Cf. Fr. anarchique, Cotgr., 1611.] Of or belonging to anarchy; without rule or government, lawless.
1790. Burke, Fr. Rev., Wks. V. 234. The barbarous anarchick despotism of Turkey. Ibid., 401. They expect that they shall hold in obedience an anarchic people by an anarchic army.
1850. Carlyle, Latter-d. Pamph., viii. (1872), 260. The whole world risen into anarchic mutiny.
1869. Seeley, Lect. & Ess., iv. 118. Culture itself has become anarchic.
