monarchize meaning (obsolete): definition

monarchize

verb

Etymology From monarch + -ize.

Obsolete To rule; to govern

As Britain-founding Brute first Monarchiz’d the Land: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:
We must confesse, she can all Soules subdue,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)

To convert to a monarchy.

[…] so far we shall be from mending our condition by monarchizing our government, whatever new conceit now possesses us.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:
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.

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[…] 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.1904, Edgar Lee Masters, “John Marshall”, in The New Star Chamber, and Other Essays, Chicago: Hammersmark, page 41:

Obsolete To act or play the part of a monarch.

[…] 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 […]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]:
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.

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[…] the delegated power, Array’d in which those worms did monarchize, Who make this earth their charnel.1824, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Triumph of Life”, in Posthumous Poems, London: John & Henry L. Hunt, page 94: