monarchy 
mon·ar·chy (män′ər kē, -är-)
noun pl. -·ar·chies
- Rare rule by only one person
- a government or state headed by a monarch: called absolute when there is no limitation on the monarch's power, constitutional when there is such limitation
Etymology: ME monarchie < OFr < LL monarchia < Gr < monarchos: see monarch
Converse of object
- overthrow: Moriarty: Hurry, Ned, it's a revolution, they will overthrow the monarchy!
- abolish: Such people are not unduly concerned whether a Protestant or Roman Catholic should be monarch - they want to abolish the monarchy altogether.
- restore: In 1660, Charles II passed through Rochester on his way to London to restore the monarchy.
- unite: No empire ever ruled a " united monarchy " from Jerusalem.
- replace: By such a spirited death, she provided the reason for the Roman people to replace the monarchy with the republic.
- establish: The middle-class Third Estate proclaims itself the National Assembly on 17th June which on 9th July establishes a constitutional monarchy.
Preposition: in
- century: These serious questions included that of the role of the monarchy in the next century.
Adjective modifier
- constitutional: In the early 1990s Nepal was a constitutional monarchy.
- hereditary: Simply put, a core part of what hereditary monarchy is all about is lineage.
- feudal: The Prussian constitutional conflict was the last time the class struggle of the German bourgeoisie flared up against the feudal monarchy.
- davidic: To them Jeremiah's radical words of the destruction of the temple and the cessation of the Davidic monarchy were blasphemous.
- absolute: Persia converted from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy in 1906.
- autocratic: He has also endorsed the pro-democracy demonstrations against the autocratic monarchy.
Modifies a noun
- website: Shall I write about Prince Andrew and his recent interview now available on the " Official " British Monarchy website?
- web: The British Monarchy web site was originally launched by The Queen in March 1997.
- today: What do you think about the state of the monarchy today?
- system: We on the other hand should not bother ourselves too much with the constitutional monarchy system in Britain.
Noun used with modifier
- Hashemite: Scholars of modern Jordan have acknowledged the special relations between the tribes and the Hashemite monarchy.
- absolutist: Influenced by Western ideas, he wished to see an absolutist monarchy on Western lines.
- tsarist: The Russian proletariat has not flinched from any sacrifice to rid humanity of the disgrace of the tsarist monarchy.
They that are discontented under monarchy call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy call it oligarchy; so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government; and yet I think no man believes that want of government is any new kind of government.
The Film Industry is the American Monarchy: it is strict entailed succession and Horatio Alger in one. Except for the money manipulators and speculators on the top, it is a society built onwork, achievement, and fealty tothose in power.
As a Minister, it is my policy to keep all the nationalities within the Habsburg monarchy in a balanced state of well-modulated dissatisfaction.
The best reason why monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardlyanywhere in the world understand any other.
My dear and only love, I pray That little world of thee Be governed by no other sway Than purest monarchy.
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