The Collaborative International Dictionary
Monarchial \Mo*nar"chi*al\, a.
Monarchic.
--Burke.
Wiktionary
a. (alternative form of monarchical English)
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, monarchic, monarchical]
Usage examples of "monarchial".
Holland without a king hath enjoyed more peace for this last century than any of the monarchial governments in Europe.
All anti-monarchial parts of scripture have been very smoothly glossed over in monarchial governments, but they undoubtedly merit the attention of countries which have their governments yet to form.
That the Almighty hath here entered his protest against monarchial government is true, or the scripture is false.
And this image, this ceramic model of the universe, originated in cultures where the form of government was monarchial, and where, therefore, the maker of the universe was conceived also at the same time in the image of the king of the universe.
I find it odd, in the United States, that people who are citizens of a republic have a monarchial theory of the universe.
The myth of the world as a political, monarchial state in which we are all here on sufferance as subject to God.
In order not to appear monarchial, both Grover and Ford had built, to the left and right of the stage, in the first gallery or dress circle, large boxes that could be divided into two if necessary.
In some republics, each member of the council or assembly is called raja or king, a nice avoidance of the monarchial principle: if everyone is a king, no one is.
She would never have thought of these people as having a monarchial structure.