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monarchic, a.|məˈnɑːkɪk|
Also 7 -ique, 7–8 -icke.
[a. F. monarchique, ad. Gr. µοναρχικ-ός, f. µόναρχ-ος: see monarch and -ic.]
1. Of a government: Having the characteristics of monarchy. Now rare; usually replaced by monarchical.
1624Brief Inform. Affairs Palatinate 24 The Empire is not an Estate Monarchique, where the Prince ruleth absolutely. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. vi. §120 That the Parliament only aimed at taking his majesty's regal rights from him, to the prejudice of monarchic government, without any thought of reforming religion. 1727Warburton Eng. Causes of Prodigies 119 He [sc. Sallust] first wrote under the Consular, and the other [sc. Tacitus] under the Monarchic State. 1864Carlyle Fredk. Gt. IV. 492 ‘What form of government do you reckon best?’ inquired he..‘The monarchic, if the king is just and enlightened’.
2. Of or belonging to a monarchy; pertaining to or favouring monarchy as a form of government.
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. iii. §80 In that [bill]..there were some clauses very derogatory to monarchic principles, as, giving the people authority to assemble together if the King failed to call them. a1668Davenant Epithal. Wks. (1673) 312 For Hymens common-weale cannot dispence In private with Monarchick excellence. 1756Burke Vind. Nat. Soc. 67 The Monarchick, Aristocratical, and Popular Partizans have been jointly laying their Axes to the Root of all Government. 1851Gallenga Italy 159 Mazzini..blames the Milanese for throwing themselves into the arms of an Italian, however monarchic, confederate. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1877) I. iii. 74 The monarchic, the aristocratic, and the democratic branches of our constitution.
3. Of or pertaining to a monarch or monarchs. Now rare or Obs.
1612Selden Drayton's Poly-olb. Author of Illustr. to Rdr., The Author, in Passages of first Inhabitants, Name, State, and Monarchique succession in this Isle, followes [etc.]. 1676Needham Packet of Adv. 15 The conteining of Monarchick Power in its just bounds. 17..Addit. Pope's Wks. (1776) I. 107 In vain was ministerial breath, In vain monarchic folly. 1807J. Barlow Columb. iv. 420 A new creation waits the western shore, And moral triumphs o'er monarchic power.
†4. = monarchical 4. (In quot. transf.) Obs.
1632Lithgow Trav. v. 185 Cyprus, Candy, and Sicily, are the onely Monarchicke Queenes of the Mediterranean Seas. Ibid. 191 The Cedars of Libanon,..like Monarchick Lyons to wild beasts,..become the chiefe Champions of Forrests. |