Meaning

(transitive, obsolete) To rule; to govern.

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, obsolete) To rule; to govern
2. (transitive) To convert to a monarchy.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To act or play the part of a monarch.

Example Sentences

We must confesse, she can all Soules subdue,

As Britain-founding Brute first Monarchiz’d the Land:

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.

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

[…] 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.

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.

[…] 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 […]

[…] the delegated power, Array’d in which those worms did monarchize, Who make this earth their charnel.

Word Forms

• monarchizes
• monarchizing
• monarchized

Related Words

When Should You Use Monarchize?

Use monarchize when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

Practice This Word

Frequently Asked Questions