monarchaladj.

?1585 W. C. Aduentures Ladie Egeria sig. O2 Rastophel..considered his precipitation at hand, especially his monarchal power before conquered.

1606 No-body & Some-body sig. F3 My kinglie browes, itch for a stately Crowne, This hand to beare a round Monarchall Globe.

1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie vi. vii. 286 The Blazon of these his Maiesties most Roiall and Monarchal Ensignes.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion iii. 47 By whose monarchall sway, Shee fortifies her selfe.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 428 Satan, whom now transcendent glory rais'd Above his fellows, with Monarchal pride..thus spake. View more context for this quotation

1735 H. Brooke Universal Beauty i. 10 With Monarchal Titles grac't.

1830 G. S. Faber Diffic. Romanism (ed. 2) i. iii. 70 The Bishops of Rome have legitimately inherited the alleged monarchal prerogatives of Peter.

1833 C. Lamb Convalescent in Last Ess. Elia 74 To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.

1886 Belgravia Mag. 60 43 A bastard, crowned, Aped manners of monarchal state.

1975 ELH 42 97 The..menacing sequence of the French revolution: monarchal oppression, revolution, mob-rule, tyranny.

2000 Maclean's (Electronic ed.) 22 May Few of Europe's young royals have managed to escape the pressures of serving as heirs to a centuries-old monarchal tradition in a modern age of intense publicity.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) v. sig. Qq5 The Princes persons; being in all monarchall gouernmentes the very knot of the peoples welfare.

1623 in Amer. Hist. Rev. (1914) 19 569 Arristocracies..are two longe a determyneinge the busynes of the common wealthe, whereby the monarchall forme is farre preferred.

1635 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Donzella Desterrada Pref. verse The ware..by thee in-brought To this Monarchall Ile.

1640 Bp. H. King Serm. 41 Look..upon Kingdomes governed by formes Monarchall and Absolute as yours.

1836 W. S. Landor Pericles & Aspasia II. 93 Nations, monarchal [printed monarcal] and aristocratical.

1846 J. C. Hare Mission of Comforter I. 15 [Such a change] would have overthrown the legitimate monarchal constitution of your being, to set up the ochlocracy within you in its stead.

1921 Amer. Hist. Rev. 26 660 The union of Greek freedom and independence with Macedonian monarchal sovereignty.

1951 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 47 544 In countries which, like The Netherlands, have had for a long time a monarchal constitution, the administration of foreign affairs..has been considered to be one of the traditional prerogatives of the Crown.

2000 Sun (Ottawa) (Electronic ed.) 2 Feb. The Canadian crown is distinctly Canadian... It's because of the monarchal system that we are not Americans.

1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie ii. 26 This is that fashioned Crowne which appertaineth to kinges onely monarchall.

1620 T. Dekker Dreame sig. F1 Hee [sc. Adam]..was Sole Monarchall Lord O're the whole Globe.

a1641 J. Finett Philoxenis (1656) 3 He..would never allow (he sayd) so much as a question or thought of competition betweene him a monarchall soveraigne and a meane Republique.

1678 A. Marvell Acct. Growth Popery (new ed.) 12 The king..was more Generous and Monarchal than to assign Cause..for his Actions.

1830 G. S. Faber Diffic. Romanism (ed. 2) ii. iii. 285 Christ's monarchal vicar might send two of his dependant suffragans..upon an ecclesiastical errand.

1874 K. H. Digby Temple of Memory (1875) ix. 335 To monarchal men like these he led A youth who loving monarchy was bred.

1998 Boston Globe (Nexis) 9 Jan. a1 Others said the president is not a monarchal figure above the reach of the law.