anarchal

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /əˈnɑː(ɹ)kəl/

Adjective

anarchal (comparative more anarchal, superlative most anarchal)

(archaic) lawless; anarchic
- 1824, Walter Savage Landor, “George Washington and Benjamin Franklin”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume II, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
  We are in the habit of calling those bodies of men anarchal which are in a state of effervescence.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “anarchal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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