Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In the form of a monarchy, or in accordance with the principles or methods of monarchical government.

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  • adjective In a monarchic or monarchical fashion.

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Examples

  • Maybe insecure too, as all those who monarchically think they are in charge are.

    Palin Thinks US Is Now at War With Iran « Antiwar.com Blog 2008

  • The English state, for Hooker, is simply the political expression of the life of a local body of Christians, monarchically governed; there is a sovereign power in this realm to which the care of the Church's administration is committed.

    The Richard Hooker Lecture: Richard Hooker (c1554-1600): The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity Revisited The Temple Church, London 2005

  • German King of England, the German Emperor of Austria, and a gentleman who shares with you the distinction of not being related to any of them, and is therefore describable monarchically as one Poincaré, a Frenchman.

    New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Various

  • Give the lie to the monarchically disposed statesman, who says the republic of the United States is only an experiment, which earlier or later will prove a failure.

    History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862

  • For elective kings are not sovereigns, but ministers of the sovereign; nor limited kings sovereigns, but ministers of them that have the sovereign power; nor are those provinces which are in subjection to a democracy or aristocracy of another Commonwealth democratically or aristocratically governed, but monarchically.

    Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651

  • Paradoxically, it is the fascist-inspired National Alliance that will be giving up the trappings of a democratic political party to throw in its lot with Forza Italia, a party founded, funded and monarchically ruled by the former media magnate.

    unknown title 2009

  • Paradoxically, it is the fascist-inspired National Alliance that will be giving up the trappings of a democratic political party to throw in its lot with Forza Italia, a party founded, funded and monarchically ruled by the former media magnate.

    Indybay newswire 2009

  • a democracy or aristocracy of another Commonwealth democratically or aristocratically governed, but monarchically.

    Leviathan 2007

  • The project already envisioned by Napoleon of “monarchically controlling memory” has been realized in Stalinism’s constant rewriting of the past, which alters not only the interpretations of past events but even the events themselves.

    2009 October 2009

  • The project already envisioned by Napoleon of “monarchically controlling memory” has been realized in Stalinism’s constant rewriting of the past, which alters not only the interpretations of past events but even the events themselves.

    The Society of the Spectacle-by Guy Debord (translated by Ken Knabb) 2009

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