[Ads-l] Antedating of "Anarchist"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Sun Mar 1 01:07:09 UTC 2015


anarchist (OED 1678)

1646 William Ball _Constitutio Liberi Populi_ 15 (Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership)  They are meere Rebels and Anarchists, for they have intrusted all their other Judiciall Power concerning Determination, Conservation, and Application to their Rulers.

Fred Shapiro


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