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.
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   2. A system of government in which the chief ruler is a
      monarch.
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            In those days he had affected zeal for monarchy.
                                                  --Macaulay.
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   3. The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.
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            What scourage for perjury
            Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence.
                                                  --Shak.
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   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.
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	monarchy
    n 1: an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the
         authority

	

	81 Moby Thesaurus words for "monarchy":
   Caesarism, Stalinism, absolute monarchy, absolutism, aristocracy,
   autarchy, authoritarianism, autocracy, autonomy,
   benevolent despotism, coalition government, colonialism,
   commonwealth, constitutional government, constitutional monarchy,
   country, czarism, democracy, despotism, dictatorship, domain,
   dominion, dominion rule, duarchy, duumvirate, dyarchy, empire,
   federal government, federation, feudal system, garrison state,
   gerontocracy, heteronomy, hierarchy, hierocracy, home rule,
   kaiserism, kingdom, limited monarchy, martial law, meritocracy,
   militarism, military government, mob rule, mobocracy, monarchism,
   monocracy, nation, neocolonialism, ochlocracy, oligarchy,
   one-man rule, one-party rule, pantisocracy, paternalism,
   patriarchate, patriarchy, police state, principality,
   pure democracy, regency, representative democracy,
   representative government, republic, royalism, self-determination,
   self-government, social democracy, sovereignty, state, stratocracy,
   technocracy, thearchy, theocracy, totalitarian government,
   totalitarian regime, totalitarianism, triarchy, triumvirate,
   tyranny, welfare state

	

	MONARCHY, government. That form of government in which the sovereign power 
is entrusted to the hands of a single magistrate. Toull. tit. prel. n. 30. 
The country governed by a monarch is also called a monarchy.