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anarchic
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anarchic \A*nar"chic\, Anarchical \A*nar"chic*al\, a. [Cf. F. anarchique.] Pertaining to anarchy; without rule or government; in political confusion; tending to produce anarchy; as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ An inheritor of Marcel Duchamp's anarchic estate, he regards all forms of artistic orthodoxy with deep scepticism. ▪ And since capitalist commodity production is spontaneous - that is, unplanned social production, they are ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1755, "chaotic, without order or rule," from Greek anarkhos "without head or chief" (see anarchy ) + -ic . Differentiated from anarchistic (1845) which tends to refer to the political philosophy of anarchism. An older word in this sense was anarchical (1590s). ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Relating to, supporting, or likely to cause anarchy. 2 chaotic, without law or order.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. without law or control; "the system is economically inefficient and politically anarchic" [syn: anarchical , lawless ]
Usage examples of anarchic.
For the economic rationale of this, I must refer disciples of Siegfried to a tract from my hand published by the Fabian Society and entitled The Impossibilities of Anarchism, which explains why, owing to the physical constitution of our globe, society cannot effectively organize the production of its food, clothes and housing, nor distribute them fairly and economically on any anarchic plan: nay, that without concerting our social action to a much higher degree than we do at present we can never get rid of the wasteful and iniquitous welter of a little riches and a deal of poverty which current political humbug calls our prosperity and civilization.
I believe that the ancient Creed, the Eternal Gospel, will stand, and conquer, and prove its might in this age, as it has in every other for eighteen hundred years, by claiming, and subduing, and organising those young anarchic forces, which now, unconscious of their parentage, rebel against Him to whom they owe their being.
He had looked out at the quizzical faces, listened to the frantic scrawling of the panicking students, and realized that with a mind that ran and tripped and hurled itself down the corridors of theory in anarchic fashion, he could learn himself, in haphazard lurches, but he could not impart the understanding he so loved.
Stirred by towers that poke above the host of city lightintense white carbide lamps, smoke-burnished red of lit grease, tallow twinkling, frenetic sputtering gas flare, all anarchic guards against the darkthe winds rejoice and play.
It felt almost vulgar, as if his anarchic form should defy accounting.
In extreme contrast to the anarchic viral flurry that had spawned it, the Construct Council thought with chill exactitude.
At one time, in modernity, this monopoly was legitimated either as the expropriation of weapons from the violent and anarchic mob, the disordered mass of individuals who tend to slaughter one another, or as the instrument of def ense against the enemy, that is, against other peoples organized in states.
The second impediment is represented by the numerous theoretical positions that see no alternative to the present form of rule except a blind anarchic other and that thus partake in a mysticism of the limit.
It need hardly be said that this version of anarchic belligerence did not recommend itself to the engineers and technologists of the Committee of Public Safety.
Insofar as they were for anything, it was an anarchic notion of popular government, always armed to impose the will of the people on its mandatories.
Committee of Public Safety, it ended the anarchic process by which zealots could take the law into their own hands.
But satire often possesses an anarchic force that may undercut the principles that nationalism establishes.
Their other ally, Grigoriev, was of little use at the time, as he was traversing the most chaotic and anarchic period of his life.
From the historical point of view the novel offers an unsurpassed picture of the change that transformed the Russia of Nicholas I into the almost anarchic Russia of the sixties.
Fresh from his biotech program, Andrew takes an assignment for a profile of a leading physicist, Violet Mosala, starting at a physics conference on the controversial island of Stateless -- a place built with stolen biotech, offering an anarchic haven for many of those disenchanted with the rest of the corporately dominated planet.