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monarchic
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Word definitions for monarchic in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Monarchic \Mo*nar"chic\, Monarchical \Mo*nar"chic*al\, a. [F. monarchique, Gr. ?.] Of or pertaining to a monarch, or to monarchy. --Burke. -- Mo*nar"chic*al*ly , adv.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of, or relating to monarchy or to a monarch.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from Middle French monarchique , from Greek monarkhikos , from monarkhes (see monarch ). Related: Monarchical (1570s).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to or befitting a monarch or monarchy; "monarchal (or monarchical) government"; "a country that was monarchial in tradition"; "reconciled to monarchic rule"; "monarchical systems" [syn: monarchal , monarchial , monarchical ] ruled by ...
Usage examples of monarchic.
In the seventeenth century, the absolutist reaction to the revolutionary forces of modernity celebrated the patrimonial monarchic state and wielded it as a weapon for its own purposes.
The modern concept of nation thus inherited the patrimonial body of the monarchic state and reinvented it in a new form.
Rather than recognizing the new nature of imperial power, the two hypotheses simply insist on the old inherited forms of state constitution: a monarchic form in the Hobbesian case, a liberal form in the Lockean.