anarchとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

anarch (plural anarchs)

1. The author of anarchy; one who excites revolt.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book LIX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 988-990:

     Thus Satan; and him thus the Anarch old / With falt'ring speech and visage incomposed / Answer'd.

   • 1830, George Gordon Byron, Thomas Moore (editor), poem fragment, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, Volume 1, page 302,

     One rank'd in some recording page / With the worst anarchs of the age, / Him wilt thou know — and, knowing, pause,

   • 1969, Henry Miller, The Books in My Life‎, page 82:

     Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

   • 1910, Elbert Hubbard, Fra Magazine: A Journal of Affirmation, January 1910 to June 1910, page One Hundred:

     As all the world knows, Emma Goldman is the chief anarch of her time.

アナグラム

• Charan, arachn-