anarchyn.[Gr. : cf. F. anarchie. See Anarch.]1. Absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion.()Spread anarchy and terror all around. (Cowper.)2. Hence, confusion or disorder, in general.()There being then . . . an anarchy, as I may term it, in authors and their rekoning of years. (Fuller.)n. pl.[NL., from Gr. without joints + -poda. See Anarthrous.] (Zol.) One of the divisions of Articulata in which there are no jointed legs, as the annelids; -- opposed to Arthropoda.()