ADJECTIVE
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ruled by or having the supreme power resting with a monarch
monarchical systems
monarchal government
How To Use monarchic In A Sentence
- Contrast the free states of the world, while their freedom lasted, with the cotemporary subjects of monarchical or oligarchical despotism: the Greek cities with the Persian satrapies; the Italian republics and the free towns of Flanders and Germany, with the feudal monarchies of Europe; Switzerland, Holland, and England, with Austria or anterevolutionary France. Representative Government
- He avoided punishment for his own cooperation with republicanism, while he helped convince the government of Charles II not to execute John Milton for his antimonarchical writings and revolutionary activities. Archive 2009-11-29
- Nike Wagner, who criticized what she called her uncle's "monarchic" leadership style. Chron.com Chronicle
- In the meantime, he sharply points out that the law absolutely and exclusively controlled by the monarchic power is an illegal law which will disserve all under the heaven.
- As to others, it was Sir Robert Filmer, a strong defender of patriarchal and monarchical authority, who observed that "Cardinal Bellarmine and Calvin both look asquint this way. Luther and Calvin
- [9] Hooker, as may be discerned from the epithet of arch-philosopher applied to the Stagyrite, 'sensu monarchico', was of the latter family, -- a comprehensive, vigorous, discreet, and discretive conceptualist, -- but not an ideist. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- As Dickens perceived it, the root cause of the French Revolution lay in an abuse of monarchic and aristocratic power in the eighteenth century.
- It was with great difficulty that the ancient monarchical provostship and, during the last ten years of the eighteenth century, the revolutionary mayoralty, had succeeded in perforating the five leagues of sewer which existed previous to 1806. Les Miserables
- The notion of a mixed constitution that involves collaboration between global monarchical and aristocratic forces is a good introduction to the concept of imperial sovereignty.
- The Russian imperial throne was the first monarchical casualty of the most catastrophic conflict to date in European history, the First World War.