monarchize

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Etymology

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From monarch +‎ -ize.

Verb

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monarchize (third-person singular simple present monarchizes, present participle monarchizing, simple past and past participle monarchized)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To rule; to govern
  2. (transitive) To convert to a monarchy.
    • 1660, John Milton, The Readie and Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth and the Excellence Therof Compar’d with the Inconveniences and Dangers of Readmitting Kingship in This Nation[2], London, pages 104–105:
      [] so far we shall be from mending our condition by monarchizing our government, whatever new conceit now possesses us.
    • 1800, Thomas Jefferson, letter to Gideon Granger dated 13 August, 1800, in Richard S. Poppen (ed.), Thomas Jefferson: The Declaration of Independence and Letters, Addresses, Excerpts and Aphorisms, St. Louis, Missouri, 1898, p. 72,[3]
      [Our government] can never be harmonious and solid, while so respectable a portion of its citizens support principles which go directly to a change of the Federal Constitution to sink the State governments, consolidate them into one, and to monarchize that.
    • 1904, Edgar Lee Masters, “John Marshall”, in The New Star Chamber, and Other Essays[4], Chicago: Hammersmark, page 41:
      [] there has existed in this country from the close of the revolutionary war a powerful party fortified by intelligence, respectability and welath and sleepless in efforts to monarchize the republic.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To act or play the part of a monarch.
    • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene 2]:
      [] within the hollow crown
      That rounds the mortal temples of a king
      Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits,
      Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,
      Allowing him a breath, a little scene,
      To monarchize, be fear’d and kill with looks []
    • 1600, Thomas Dekker, Old Fortunatus, London: William Aspley, [Act I, Scene 3],[5]
      Uice hath golden cheekes, O pittie, pittie,
      She in euery land doth monarchize.
      Uertue is exilde from euery Cittie,
      Uertue is a foole, Uice onely wise.
    • 1824, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Triumph of Life”, in Posthumous Poems[6], London: John & Henry L. Hunt, page 94:
      [] the delegated power,
      Array’d in which those worms did monarchize,
      Who make this earth their charnel.

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