Crossword clues for monarchic
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from Middle French monarchique, from Greek monarkhikos, from monarkhes (see monarch). Related: Monarchical (1570s).
Wiktionary
a. Of, or relating to monarchy or to a monarch.
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 or having the supreme power resting with a monarch; "monarchal government"; "monarchical systems" [syn: monarchal, monarchical]
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.