monarchize

Verb

 * 1)  To rule; to govern
 * 2) * 1612,, The Muses Sacrifice, London: George Norton, dedication,
 * For, should we giue this Empresse but her due,
 * (Empresse of speech that Monarchizeth Eares)
 * We must confesse, she can all Soules subdue,
 * to Passions causing Ioy, or forcing Teares.
 * 1)  To convert to a monarchy.
 * 2) * 1800,, letter to 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.
 * 1)  To act or play the part of a monarch.
 * 2) * 1600,, , 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.
 * 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.