[ad. Gr. αὐταρχία, f. αὔταρχος: see prec. and -Y.]

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  1.  Absolute sovereignty, despotism.

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1692.  Washington, trans. Milton’s Def. Pop., Wks. 1738, I. 467. A certain Government, which he calls an Autarchy, of which he makes God the only Judg. Ibid., 468. That absolute and imaginary Right of Sovereignty, that Autarchy.

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  2.  Self-government.

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1691.  G. B. (title), Autarchy or the Art of Self-Government.

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