About The Word Monarchy
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Monarchy
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What's The Definition Of Monarchy?
[n] an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority
Synonyms | Synonyms for Monarchy: Related Terms | Find terms related to Monarchy: absolute monarchy | absolutism | aristocracy | autarchy | authoritarianism | autocracy | autonomy | benevolent despotism | Caesarism | 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 | Stalinism | state | stratocracy | technocracy | thearchy | theocracy | totalitarian government | totalitarian regime | totalitarianism | triarchy | triumvirate | tyranny | welfare state See Also | autarchy | autocracy | empire | kingdom | parliamentary monarchy Monarchy In Webster's Dictionary \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.
2. A system of government in which the chief ruler is a
monarch.
In those days he had affected zeal for monarchy.
--Macaulay.
3. The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.
What scourage for perjury Can this dark monarchy
afford false Clarence. --Shak.
{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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