Unarch
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Unarch is a noun meaning The head of a phalanx or phalanstery.
Meaning
The head of a phalanx or phalanstery.
Example Sentences
Though there seems to be but little need of government under this system, officers are elected, the head of a phalanx being called an unarch, and the chief of the world phalanxes, an omniarch.
The office of an Unarch is therefore but an honourable title. What can political authority be applied to in the Phalange, where all means of violence are absolutely useless, where no clashing interests, no enemies exist; […]
Enfantin, the leader of the Saint- Simonians, bore the title of Father. In Fourier's scheme it was expressly declared that there were to be rulers or unarchs; and the supreme ruler, who was to reside in Constantinople, would be known as the omniarch.
Word Forms
- unarchs
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include phalange, pile, spearhead, phalanx, bridgehead, archontate.
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