Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to, having the characteristics of, or advocating anarchism.

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  • adjective Of or relating to anarchism or anarchy.

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  • adjective of or related to anarchism or tending toward anarchism

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Examples

  • 71Because they understood freedom in anarchistic terms, as the absence of all hierarchy and rules, the Diggers and Free Families organized social and sexual reproduction around their choice to resist the regime of money and property.

    Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83 2007

  • Started in 1980 in the Bay Area of California, this radical group of Witches mixes magick and politics within a structure that could happily be called anarchistic!

    Where To Park Your Broomstick Lauren Manoy 2002

  • Started in 1980 in the Bay Area of California, this radical group of Witches mixes magick and politics within a structure that could happily be called anarchistic!

    Where To Park Your Broomstick Lauren Manoy 2002

  • Only one or two openly professed what may be called anarchistic views, and these were young students, recent arrivals, who looked more like robbing an orchard than threatening a throne.

    From Paris to New York by Land Harry De Windt 1894

  • On July 31, 1909, we find Victor Berger, who posed as the special exponent of "political action," against the "anarchistic" element in his party, writing as follows in the "Social Democratic Herald" of

    The Red Conspiracy Joseph J. Mereto

  • The four pages of each number were given over either to philosophical articles no more "anarchistic" than

    The Conflict David Graham Phillips 1889

  • Libertarians and many "Tea Partiers" unknowingly wish to spin our Democracy into an a kind of anarchistic oligarchy where the banks and corporations will rule and mercilessly step on not only on the tea party people, but all the little people and we will continue to have what we ` ve had for so many years: Democracy for the few.

    Boulder Daily Camera Most Viewed 2010

  • Libertarians and many "Tea Partiers" unknowingly wish to spin our Democracy into an a kind of anarchistic oligarchy where the banks and corporations will rule and mercilessly step on not only on the tea party people, but all the little people and we will continue to have what we ` ve had for so many years: Democracy for the few.

    Boulder Daily Camera Most Viewed 2010

  • Libertarians and many "Tea Partiers" unknowingly wish to spin our Democracy into an a kind of anarchistic oligarchy where the banks and corporations will rule and mercilessly step on not only on the tea party people, but all the little people and we will continue to have what we ` ve had for so many years: Democracy for the few.

    Boulder Daily Camera Most Viewed 2010

  • Libertarians and many "Tea Partiers" unknowingly wish to spin our Democracy into an a kind of anarchistic oligarchy where the banks and corporations will rule and mercilessly step on not only on the tea party people, but all the little people and we will continue to have what we ` ve had for so many years: Democracy for the few.

    Boulder Daily Camera Most Viewed 2010

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