arch, -archic, -archical, -archism, -archist, -archy
(Greek: govern, rule; ruler, chief [first in position])
anarch
1. An author of anarchy; a leader of a revolt against an established government.
2. An advocate of anarchy, an anarchist.
anarchic
1. Showing no respect for established laws, rules, institutions, or authority.
2. Characterized by a lack of organization or control.
3. Likely to cause the overthrow of a formal system of government or a breakdown of law and order.
anarchism
1. A political theory advocating the elimination of governments and governmental restrain and the substitution of voluntary cooperation among individuals.
2. Behavior intended to overthrow or weaken a society’s formal system of government.
3. Resistance to all forms of authority or control.
Anarchism may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.
—Benjamin R. Tucker, State Socialism and Anarchism
Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man’s subordination.
—Emma Goldman (1869-1940), American anarchist
anarchist
1. Someone who rejects the need for a system of government in society and proposes its abolition.
2. Any one who tries to overthrow a society’s formal system of government or behaves in a generally lawless manner and encourages others to do the same.
anarchy
1. The absence of any formal system of government in a society.
2. A situation in which there is a total lack of organization or control.
3. Political disorder and violence; lawlessness.
4. Disorder in any sphere of activity.
When the rich assemble to concern themselves with the business of the poor, it is called charity. When the poor assemble to concern themselves with the business of the rich, it is called anarchy.
—Paul Richard
antimonarchy
Opposition to the rule by a monarchy.
archmonarchy
The chief, or principal, monarchy
archology
1. The theory of origins.
2. The science of government.
Archosauria
The “ruling lizards”; the superorder of advanced diapsids that includes the modern crocodiles as well as the theodonts, perosaurs, and dinosaurs. Archosaurs are believed to have first appeared in the earliest Triassic period.
Archosaurs
Meaning “ruling lizards”, was a family of Theocodonts; Crocodilians; Saurischian dinosaurs; Birds; Ornithischian dinosaurs; and Pterosaurs. Most groups lived in the Mesozoic Era’s Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods.
aristarchy
Rule by the best or most qualified people.
aristomonarchy
Rule by the best, or most qualified, monarchy.
autarch
An absolute ruler.
autarchy
1. Absolute sovereignty, despotism.
2. Self-government; an autocratic government by one person with unlimited authority over others.
biarchy
Dual sovereignty, government by two.
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