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Fifth monarchy
The last of the five great empires referred to in the prophecy of Daniel (Dan. ii. 44), in the 17th c. identified with the millennial reign of Christ predicted in the apocalypse. Also attrib., esp. in Fifth-monarchy man, one of those in 17th c. who believed that the second coming of Christ was immediately at hand, and that it was the duty of Christians to be prepared to assist in establishing his reign by force, and in the meantime to repudiate all allegiance to any other government.
1657Evelyn Diary 10 Aug., Desperate zealots, call'd the Fifth-Monarchy-Men. 1677Duke of Lauderdale in L. Papers (1885) III. lvii. 89 How soone they [the disaffected in W. Scotland] may take armes no man can tell; for..they are perfitely fifth monarchye men. 1702Sewall Diary 31 Jan. (1879) II. 52 William Parsons of 88 years, is buried. Was in the fifth-monarchy fray in London: but slipt away in the Crowd. 1731E. Calamy Life (1830) I. i. 76 He [Calamy's schoolmaster] was a sort of Fifth Monarchy man.
Hence Fifth-moˈnarchical, a., of or pertaining to the Fifth-monarchy; Fifth-ˈmonarchism nonce-wd., the principles of the Fifth-monarchy men; Fifth-ˈmonarchist = Fifth-monarchy man.
1679Oates Narr. Popish. Plot Ded. A ij b, An Anti⁓christian pretence of a Fifth Monarchical Soveraignty over all the Kings and Princes of Christendom. 1705E. Ward Hud. Rediv. II. ix., Fifth-Monarchical Fanaticks. 1736Plea Sacram. Test 110 Venner, and the other Fifth-Monarchists in England. 1832–4De Quincey Cæsars Wks. 1862 IX. 9 The fanatics of 1650 who proclaimed Jesus for their king..were usually styled Fifth-Monarchists. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 235 The turbid zeal of Fifth-Monarchism. |