monarchize
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monarchize (third-person singular simple present monarchizes, present participle monarchizing, simple past and past participle monarchized)
- (transitive, obsolete) To rule; to govern
- 1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes; I. Browne; I. Helme; I. Busbie, published 1613, →OCLC, page 77:
- As Britain-founding Brute first Monarchiz’d the Land:
- 1612, John Davies, The Muses Sacrifice, London: George Norton, dedication,[1]
- For, should we giue this Empresse but her due,
- (Empresse of speech that Monarchizeth Eares)
- We must confesse, she can all Soules subdue,
- to Passions causing Ioy, or forcing Teares.
- (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.
- (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]
- 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.