monarchicallyadv.
/məˈnɑːkᵻkli/, U.S. /məˈnɑrkək(ə)li/ In a monarchical form or manner.
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society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > monarchical government > [adverb]
royallyc1405
monarchically1586
1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 622 Who can deny, that it is not a great deale better for great and mighty nations to be gouerned Monarchically.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xix. 98 Nor are those Provinces..Democratically, or Aristocratically governed, but Monarchically.
1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 41 To plant it [sc. an army] Nationally, it must be..either Monarchically in part,..or Monarchically in the whole.
1839 Fraser's Mag. 19 127 He lived..with Kings, monarchically; with the people, democratically.
1883 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. II. 987/1 The Roman church..organized monarchically, the whole power centring in the Pope.
1956 R. Macaulay Towers of Trebizond xxiii. 265 Monarchy had no say in any governmental matter, it was kept for social purposes, and to please a monarchically minded nation.
1991 Shakespeare Q. 42 399 The official, monarchically approved textbook.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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