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▪ I. autarchy|ˈɔːtəkɪ|
[ad. Gr. αὐταρχία, f. αὔταρχος: see autarch and -y.]
1. Absolute sovereignty, despotism.
1665M. N. Medela Medicinæ sig. A5 Epist. ded., Who..are so confident, as to attempt an Autarchie in Physick, and long for an opportunity to oppress and trample upon the nobler sort of Philosophers and Physicians. 1692Washington tr. Milton's Def. Pop. Wks. 1738 I. 467 A certain Government, which he calls an Autarchy, of which he makes God the only Judg. Ibid. 468 That absolute and imaginary Right of Sovereignty, that Autarchy. 1838F. Lieber Man. Pol. Ethics I. ii. xii. 411, I call autarchy that state in which public power, whole and entire, unmitigated and unmodified, rests..in the hands of a monarch, or the people, or in aristocracy.
2. Self-government.
1691G. B. (title) Autarchy or the Art of Self-Government.
▪ II. autarchy
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