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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Monarchy \Mon"arch*y\, n.; pl {Monarchies}. [F. monarchie, L.
monarchia, Gr ?. See {Monarch}.]
1. A state or government in which the supreme power is lodged
in the hands of a monarch.
2. A system of government in which the chief ruler is a
monarch.
In those days he had affected zeal for monarchy.
--Macaulay.
3. The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.
What scourage for perjury Can this dark monarchy
afford false Clarence. --Shak.
{Fifth monarchy}, a universal monarchy, supposed to be the
subject of prophecy in Daniel ii.; the four preceding
monarchies being Assyrian, Persian, Grecian, and Roman.
See {Fifth Monarchy men}, under {Fifth}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
monarchy
n : an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the
authority
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