omniarch

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UK/ˈɒmnɪək/US/ɑmnɪˈɑɹk/

noun

A ruler of the world or everything.

Scrabble 15

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nounomniarch (plural omniarchs)

plural omniarchs

  1. A ruler of the world or everything.

    I was a man born to a field estate:/Abaddon was my brother, and he grew/To his vast prime, an omniarch, elate/With knowledges of power, and, ere the dew/Of youthful mom fled his pellucid eyes,/His soul had cleft the vaulted centuries.

    1860, Thomas Lake Harris, Regina: A Song of Many Days, W. White, New Church Publishing, page 163
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    These are all to be federated , and finally to embrace the whole world under a supreme magistrate or "omniarch, residing in Constantinople. Fourier's system prefers agriculture to other branches of work, and particularly affects arboriculture and horticulture. It also favours agriculture on a large scale, and provides for a comparative falling off in manufactures through the abatement of luxury.

    1893, Luigi Cossa, Louis Dyer, An Introduction to the Study of Political Economy, Macmillan and Company, pages 530–531

    Enfantin, the leader of the Saint-Simonians, bore the title of Father. In Fourier's scheme it was expressly declared that there were to be rulers or unarchs; and the supreme ruler, who was to reside in Constantinople, would be known as the omniarch.

    1922, Aurel Kolnai, Eden Paul, Cedar Paul, Psychoanalysis and Sociology, Harcourt, Brace and Company, page 126

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