Monarchy

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  monarchy
       n : an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the
           authority

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  MONARCHY, government. That form of government in which the sovereign power 
  is entrusted to the hands of a single magistrate. Toull. tit. prel. n. 30. 
  The country governed by a monarch is also called a monarchy.