nonce-wd. [f. Gr. κριτής judge + -αρχία rule, after monarchy, etc.] The rule, or period of rule, of the Judges in ancient Israel.
1834. Southey, Doctor (1838), V. Interch. xvii. 337. The Lays of Samson, Jephthah, Gideon, and other heroes of the Kritarchy.
