单词 | monarchomachist |
释义 | monarchomachistn. Now chiefly historical. A person who fights against monarchy; an anti-monarchist. In earlier use: a person who argues against the Divine Right of monarchs. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > principles of or attachment to types of government > [noun] > monarchism > antimonarchy > adherent of monarchomachist1639 monarchomach1904 1639 J. Corbet Ungirding Sc. Armour 30 That assertion of the Monarchomachists is not alwaies true. a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 219 The History which I have written, of the Lives of the Five Kings of Scotland, may, by some Monarchomachists, be challenged as scandalous. 1659 Three Propos. Case Three Nations 2 It will easily be granted by the most eager Monarchomachists, that the Regal power (if it degenerate) is of all the worst. 1816 Edinb. Rev. Sept. 221 The monarchom[ach]ists of the sixteenth century. 1927 Amer. Hist. Rev. 32 495 The Catholic Monarchomachist Boucher. 1993 S. Howe Nonconformist's Memorial 70 Even after the monarchomachists The regicide hack Robert Robins piled up syllogisms. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1639 |
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