cryptarchy

A secret government or rulership.

Noun

  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...

Origin

From crypt- (“secret”) + -archy (“government”).

Forms

cryptarchies