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monarchical, a.|məˈnɑːrkɪkəl|
Also 6–7 -all.
[f. monarchic a. + -al1.]
1. Of the nature of or having the characteristics of a monarchy; esp. of government, vested in a monarch.
1589Hay any Work (1844) 48 Such is the civil governement..Monarchicall in her Maiesties person. 1602W. Fulbecke Pandects 32 Thus in the end they came to a Monarchicall estate. And these Nations..do create a Duke or Capitaine, who may gouerne the rest. a1618Raleigh Prince (1642) 13 That a Kingdome be not too Monarchicall. 1771Junius Lett. lix. (1820) 305, I hope the English constitution will for ever preserve its original monarchical form. 1850Prescott Peru II. ii. 19 With the Aztecs..it [the form of government] was monarchical and nearly absolute. 1869Lecky Europ. Mor. II. iv. 286 The monarchical..institutions of feudalism. 1888Schaff Chr. Church VI. i. x. 44 Every little principality in monarchical Germany..has its own church establishment.
transf.1615Crooke Body of Man 39 It is more honourable (say they [sc. the Peripatetics]) and monarchical, that there should be one principle [e.g. the Heart] then many.
2. Of or pertaining to monarchy; that advocates monarchy as a form of government.
1628Wither Brit. Rememb. viii. 1530 Ev'n what the son of Hannah told the Jewes, Should be their scourge (because they..were so vaine To aske a King..) that curse they shall Affirm to be a Law Monarchicall. 1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus iii. 143 More in the edificial Palaces of Bees and Monarchical spirits; who make their combs six-cornered, declining a circle. 1833Alison Hist. Europe (1849) I. iv. §38. 474 The remains of monarchical attachment yet lingered. 1865Maffei Brigand Life I. 90 Men representing all varieties of opinion..appeared in Naples..Mazzinians, monarchical democrats, &c. 1869Lecky Europ. Mor. II. iv. 287 When the course of events has been to glorify..monarchical..spirit, a great..sovereign..will arise.
3. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a monarch; befitting a monarch; monarchal.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 198, I am content with my Monarchicall maiestie or title royall. 1622Donne Serm. 2 Cor. iv. 6 Serm. 1660–1 III. 377 There is not so Regal, so Soveraign, so Monarchical a Prerogative, as to have [etc.]. 1647Cowley Mistress, Vain Love 12 Your brave and haughty scorn of all Was stately, and Monarchical. 1649Milton Eikon. xv. 144 That his Monarchical foot might have the setting it upon thir heads. 1772Foote Nabob i. (1778) 7 A very monarchical address. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. viii, When..the bees worry themselves..about their sovereign and become perfectly distracted touching the slightest monarchical movement.
4. Having the power or functions of a monarch; having undivided rule; † autocratic.
a1618Raleigh Prince (1642) 6 So that a Monarch bee not to Monarchicall,..as the Russe Kings. 1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. iii. 173 The Messias where he is Monarchicall, and rules, is also Eirenarchicall, and atones. 1906D. W. Forrest Authority of Christ vii. 409 In the churches of Egypt, as we have seen, there was no monarchical bishop.
Hence moˈnarchically adv., in a monarchical form or manner.
1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. 587 Who can denie, that it is not a great deale better for great and mightie nations to be governed monarchically. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xix. 98 Nor are those Provinces..Democratically, or Aristocratically governed, but Monarchically. 1656J. Harrington Oceana (1700) 70 To plant it Nationally, it must be..either Monarchically in part,..or Monarchically in the whole. 1839Fraser's Mag. XIX. 127 He lived..with Kings, monarchically; with the people, democratically. 1882–3Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. II. 987/1 The Roman church..organized monarchically, the whole power centring in the Pope. |