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Monarchic

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
monarchic

from Middle French monarchique, from Greek monarkhikos, from monarkhes (see monarch). Related: Monarchical (1570s).

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monarchic

a. Of, or relating to monarchy or to a monarch.

WordNet
monarchic
  1. 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]

  2. 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.