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anarchially en · ADV

Etymology

From anarchial + -ly.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, rare) Anarchically.
   • No stable union can be made between States legitimately governed and States which are anarchially con­trolled. 1880 August 16, “Southern Census Frauds”, in Sacramento Daily Record-Union:
   • If the normal urethral avenue is blocked due to ecchymosis, the millions of spermatazoa anarchially reverse course, enter the bloodstream, and race through muscles and organs in a marathon cross-country (cross-body) trial. 1989, Abel Posse, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden, The Dogs of Paradise, Macmillan Publishers, page 135:
   • Tere is in architectural circles and amongst partly-informed but interested lay thought a tendency to restlessness, impatience and revolt against the wise restraint which respect for tradition imposes upon the anarchially disposed in design at the present time. 1925 October 2, J. Hembrow, “Evolution and Revolution in Design”, in The Builder, volume XXIX, number 4313, page 490:

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