Monarchy \Mon"arch*y\, n.; pl. Monarchies. [F. monarchie, L.
monarchia, Gr. ?. See Monarch.]
1. A state or government in which the supreme power is lodged
in the hands of a monarch.
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2. A system of government in which the chief ruler is a
monarch.
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In those days he had affected zeal for monarchy.
--Macaulay.
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3. The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.
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What scourage for perjury
Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence.
--Shak.
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Fifth monarchy, a universal monarchy, supposed to be the
subject of prophecy in Daniel ii.; the four preceding
monarchies being Assyrian, Persian, Grecian, and Roman.
See Fifth Monarchy men, under Fifth.
[1913 Webster]
Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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81 Moby Thesaurus words for "monarchy":
Caesarism, Stalinism, absolute monarchy, absolutism, aristocracy,
autarchy, authoritarianism, autocracy, autonomy,
benevolent despotism, coalition government, colonialism,
commonwealth, constitutional government, constitutional monarchy,
country, czarism, democracy, despotism, dictatorship, domain,
dominion, dominion rule, duarchy, duumvirate, dyarchy, empire,
federal government, federation, feudal system, garrison state,
gerontocracy, heteronomy, hierarchy, hierocracy, home rule,
kaiserism, kingdom, limited monarchy, martial law, meritocracy,
militarism, military government, mob rule, mobocracy, monarchism,
monocracy, nation, neocolonialism, ochlocracy, oligarchy,
one-man rule, one-party rule, pantisocracy, paternalism,
patriarchate, patriarchy, police state, principality,
pure democracy, regency, representative democracy,
representative government, republic, royalism, self-determination,
self-government, social democracy, sovereignty, state, stratocracy,
technocracy, thearchy, theocracy, totalitarian government,
totalitarian regime, totalitarianism, triarchy, triumvirate,
tyranny, welfare state
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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Monarchy \Mon"arch*y\, n.; pl. Monarchies. [F. monarchie, L.
monarchia, Gr. ?. See Monarch.]
1. A state or government in which the supreme power is lodged
in the hands of a monarch.
2. A system of government in which the chief ruler is a
monarch.
In those days he had affected zeal for monarchy.
--Macaulay.
3. The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.
What scourage for perjury Can this dark monarchy
afford false Clarence. --Shak.
Fifth monarchy, a universal monarchy, supposed to be the
subject of prophecy in Daniel ii.; the four preceding
monarchies being Assyrian, Persian, Grecian, and Roman.
See Fifth Monarchy men, under Fifth.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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