rare. [f. Gr. κρυπτός hidden, secret + ἀρχός ruler.] A secret ruler. So Cryptarchy, secret government.
1800. W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., VIII. 599. These foreign assistants are, in fact, the cryptarchs of such synods. Ibid. (1798), in Monthly Rev., XXV. 511. Yet … this cosmopolitan cryptarchy is coextensive with the habitable world.
