Meanings
nouncryptarchy (plural cryptarchies)
plural cryptarchies
- A secret government or rulership.
Yet these “ubiquitary nullibists,” (to borrow the jargon of Henry More,) this cosmopolitan cryptarchy, is co-extensive with the habitable world; and while with one hand it is preparing for Paris and Marseilles the desertion and desolation of […]
1798, The Monthly Review, volume 25, page 511
Origin
From crypt- (“secret”) + -archy (“government”).
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