monarchize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: monarchizes
form: monarchizing
form: monarchized
form: monarchized
Etymology: From monarch + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: As Britain-founding Brute first Monarchiz’d the Land:
ref: 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: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC, page 77:
text: We must confesse, she can all Soules subdue,
ref: 1612, John Davies, The Muses Sacrifice, London: George Norton, dedication, For, should we giue this Empresse but her due, (Empresse of speech that Monarchizeth Eares)
roman: to Passions causing Ioy, or forcing Teares.
glosses: To rule; to govern
examples: text: […] so far we shall be from mending our condition by monarchizing our government, whatever new conceit now possesses us.
ref: 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, London, pages 104–105:
text: 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,
[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.
text: […] 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.
ref: 1904, Edgar Lee Masters, “John Marshall”, in The New Star Chamber, and Other Essays, Chicago: Hammersmark, page 41:
glosses: To convert to a monarchy.
examples: text: […] 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 […]
ref: 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]:
text: 1600, Thomas Dekker, Old Fortunatus, London: William Aspley, [Act I, Scene 3],
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.
text: […] the delegated power,
Array’d in which those worms did monarchize,
Who make this earth their charnel.
ref: 1824, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Triumph of Life”, in Posthumous Poems, London: John & Henry L. Hunt, page 94:
glosses: To act or play the part of a monarch.
Derived terms: demonarchize