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Definition of Monarchy

1. Noun. An autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority.

Definition of Monarchy

1. n. A state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a monarch.

Definition of Monarchy

1. Noun. A government with a hereditary head of state (whether as a figurehead or as a powerful ruler). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Monarchy

1. rule by a monarch [n -CHIES]

Medical Definition of Monarchy

1. Origin: 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: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Monarchy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1903)
"Now you must understand the overthrow of a monarchy to be this, when another ... Then it amounts to an overthrow of the monarchy, since it involves the ..."

2. The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle by Ernest Barker (1906)
"Here again, as in 1 Here we see Socratic intellectualism making for absolute enlightened monarchy, to the neglect of popular mil. ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, William Smith (1862)
"OF THK STATE OP PERSIA AFTER THE RESTORATION OP THE monarchy BY ARTAXERXES. WHENEVER Tacitus indulges himself in those beautiful episodes in The bar- which ..."

4. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1921)
"But in France, Russia, in many states of Germany and of Italy — Saxony and Tuscany eg — personal monarchy was not so restrained and overthrown; ..."

5. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"The monarchy and the monarchical system alone retain their vitality ... In the splendour and power of the monarchy the nation sees its aspirations realised. ..."

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