单词 | monarchical |
释义 | monarchicaladj. 1. a. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a monarch; befitting a monarch; monarchal. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > [adjective] reala1325 rialc1330 principala1382 royalc1405 princely?a1510 monarchical?1573 monarchal?1585 monarchic1604 monarchial1788 majestarian1847 sovereignly1884 ?1573 H. Cheke tr. F. Negri Freewyl v. ii. 170 The Pope is crowned with gold and precious stones, for worldly glorie and monarchical maiestie. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Peisistratus in Panoplie Epist. 198 I am content with my Monarchicall maiestie or title royall. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) IV. 112 There is not so Regal, so Soveraign, so Monarchical a Prerogative, as to have [etc.]. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xv. 144 That his Monarchical foot might have the setting it upon thir heads. a1777 S. Foote Nabob (1778) i. 7 A very monarchical address! 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. viii. 71 When..the bees worry themselves..about their sovereign, and become perfectly distracted touching the slightest monarchical movement. 1933 B. Gadelius Human Mentality ix. 206 Normal mental life retains a constitution which it seems apposite to call monarchical, as all ideas and acts of volition are centralized round the subject, the sovereign Ego. 1971 M. Meyer Ibsen ii. ii. 62 He maintained a monarchical sensitivity in matters of protocol. b. Having the power or functions of a monarch; having undivided rule; †autocratic (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [adjective] > tyrannical, despotic, or autocratic tyrant1297 tyrannous1491 Pharaonical1528 tyrannical1560 tyrannizing1589 servile1603 despotical1608 monarchicala1618 Nimrodian1631 autocratoric1641 Dominical1644 despotic1650 Pendragonish1650 autocratical1651 autocratorical1651 Pharaonian1673 autocratic1769 Pharaonic1792 Corsican1804 Napoleonic1810 satrapian1822 satrapical1823 sultanic1827 absolutist1829 absolutistic1841 arbitrary1862 Napoleonistic1870 Nimrodic1877 pre-Hitlerian1942 society > authority > rule or government > sole rule > [adjective] > ruling as monarch regnantc1475 monarchial1548 monarchal1586 monarchizing1592 monarchicala1618 sovereignizing1621 monarchic1632 regent1690 reigning1705 a1618 W. Raleigh Prince (1642) 6 So that a Monarch bee not to Monarchicall,..as the Russe Kings. 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper iii. 173 The Messias where he is Monarchicall, and rules, is also Eirenarchicall, and atones. 1883 Littell's Living Age Sept. 651 Sismondi states that the revenues of many Florentine citizens surpassed those of the greatest monarchical princes. 1906 D. W. Forrest Authority of Christ vii. 409 In the churches of Egypt, as we have seen, there was no monarchical bishop. 1945 V. Ferm Encycl. Relig. 191/1 Conciliarism, the doctrine of the authority of representative church councils as over against that of the monarchical papacy. 1994 Church Times 30 Dec. 8/1 What today do we mean by a bishop? The presbyter bishops of the New Testament,..or the post-apostolic monarchical bishops of the second and third centuries? 2. Of the nature of or having the characteristics of a monarchy; esp. (of government) vested in a monarch. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > monarchical government > [adjective] > of nature of monarchy kingly1566 monarchala1586 monarchical1587 monarchial1602 monarchic1624 1587 T. Wilkes Let. to Elizabeth July in H. Brugmans Correspondentie van R. Dudley (1931) 402 To be plaine with Your Majesty, they doe not naturally love to be subiect to any monarchicall governement. 1602 W. Fulbecke Pandectes 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. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 39 It is more honourable (say they [sc. the Peripatetics]) and monarchical, that there should be one principle [e.g. the Heart] then many. 1661 E. Turner Speeches before King, Lords & Commons 35 The Forms and Species of Governments are various, Monarchical, Aristocratical, and Democratical; but the first is certainly the best, as being nearest to Divinity it self. 1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. lix. 266 I hope the English constitution will for ever preserve its original monarchical form. 1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. i. ii. 23 With the Aztecs..[the form of government] was monarchical and nearly absolute. 1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals II. iv. 286 The monarchical..institutions of feudalism. 1888 P. Schaff Hist. Christian Church VI. i. x. 44 Every little principality in monarchical Germany..has its own church establishment. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 102/2 The academy was made to be the natural ornament of a monarchical society. 1956 M. Ventris & J. Chadwick Documents in Mycenaean Greek v. 120 A monarchical system of government is proved for both Knossos and Pylos by references to the king. 1992 UNESCO Courier Feb. 9/1 In some cases, monarchical and dynastic structures have existed in Africa for 500 or a thousand years. 3. Of or relating to monarchy or a monarchy; favouring monarchy as a form of government. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > monarchical government > [adjective] monarchic1624 monarchical1628 monarchica1668 1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer 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. 1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 143 More in the edificial Palaces of Bees and Monarchical spirits; who make their combs six-corner'd, declining a circle. 1791 E. Burke Corr. (1844) III. 202 The chief of every monarchical party must be the monarch himself. 1849 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. (new ed.) I. iv. 474 The remains of monarchical attachment yet lingered. 1865 A. Maffei Brigand Life I. 90 Men representing all varieties of opinion..appeared in Naples..Mazzinians, monarchical democrats, &c. 1902 Contemp. Rev. Dec. 802 Italian ecclesiastics..undermining the monarchical principle throughout Italy,..preconising it in Russia. 1988 A. N. Wilson Tolstoy 2 The United States came into being, having thrown off the monarchical and colonial principles of the British Crown. 1993 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 22 Jan. (Weekend Suppl.) 6/3 Australians are a monarchical people. Unlike..the Americans..we expect a living and active conscience at the centre of the State. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?1573 |
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