omniarch

English

Etymology

omni- + -arch

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Noun

omniarch (plural omniarchs)

  1. A ruler of the world or everything.
    • 1860, Thomas Lake Harris, Regina: A Song of Many Days, W. White, New Church Publishing, page 163:
      I was a man born to a field estate:/Abaddon was my brother, and he grew/To his vast prime, an omniarch, elate/With knowledges of power, and, ere the dew/Of youthful mom fled his pellucid eyes,/His soul had cleft the vaulted centuries.
    • 1893, Luigi Cossa, Louis Dyer, An Introduction to the Study of Political Economy, Macmillan and Company, pages 530–531:
      These are all to be federated , and finally to embrace the whole world under a supreme magistrate or "omniarch, residing in Constantinople. Fourier's system prefers agriculture to other branches of work, and particularly affects arboriculture and horticulture. It also favours agriculture on a large scale, and provides for a comparative falling off in manufactures through the abatement of luxury.
    • 1922, Aurel Kolnai, Eden Paul, Cedar Paul, Psychoanalysis and Sociology, Harcourt, Brace and Company, page 126:
      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.

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