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"Section M, N, and O"

[Obs.]
Shak.


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.


2. A system of government in which the chief
ruler is a monarch.


In those days he had affected zeal for
monarchy.
Macaulay.


3. The territory ruled over by a monarch; a
kingdom.


What scourage for perjury

Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence.

Shak.


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.


||Mo"nas (?), n. [NL. See
Monad.] (Zoöl.) A genus of minute flagellate
Infusoria of which there are many species, both free and attached.
See Illust. under Monad.


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