auterchy

[Gr. αὐταρχία ( autarch i a ) = absolute power; αὐτάρχης (autarches) = an absolute sovereign; αὐταρχέω ( autarcheō ) = to be an absolute sovereign: αὐτός ( autos ) = self, and ἀρχεύω ( archeuō ), or ἄρχω ( archo ) = to command, to rule.] The government of a single person; absolutism. "It may as well boast an autarchie and self-sufficiencie."-Valentine: Four Serm . (1635), p. 10.