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cryptarchies

cryptarchies is the plural of cryptarchy.

Meaning of cryptarchy

Noun

cryptarchy (plural cryptarchies)

  1. A secret government or rulership.
    • Yet these “ubiquitary nullibists,” (to borrow the jargon of Henry More,) this cosmopolitan cryptarchy, is co-extensive with the habitable world; and while with one hand it is preparing for Paris and Marseilles the desertion and desolation of […]1798, The Monthly Review, volume 25, page 511

Questions about cryptarchies

What is cryptarchies the plural of?
Cryptarchies is the plural of cryptarchy.

Words near cryptarchies in the dictionary

  1. cryptanalyzes
  2. cryptanalyzing
  3. cryptand
  4. cryptands
  5. cryptanoside
  6. cryptarchies
  7. cryptarchy
  8. cryptarithm
  9. cryptarithmetic
  10. cryptarithmic
  11. cryptarithms

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