monarchize

Verb

monarchize (third-person singular simple present monarchizes, present participle monarchizing, simple past and past participle monarchized)

1. (obsolete, transitive) 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...
   • 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)
2. (transitive) 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...
   • [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.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...
3. (intransitive, 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...
   • 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.1600, Thomas Dekker, Old Fortunatus, London: William Aspley, [Act I, Scene 3]