monarchizing
Acting regally sovereign
Monarchizing is acting like a monarch or assuming royal airs—behaving with the authority, grandeur, or pretension of a king or queen.
The word appears in Shakespeare's *Richard II*, where the king imagines Death "monarchizing" within his crown.
It suggests theatrical self-importance or the exercise of sovereign power: He spent the meeting monarchizing from the head of the table.
Supreme independent authority
- dominionAuthority to rule
- ruleGoverning principle or standard
- reignSovereign's time in power
- governanceHow authority is exercised
command · control · power · supremacy · autocracy · absolutism · despotism · tyranny
Ceremony installing a sovereign
- enthronementFormal investiture of sovereign
- anointmentRitual application of oil
- investitureCeremony conferring rank
- crowningInstalling as monarch
regalia · scepter · diadem · tiara · crown · orb · procession · ritual
Monarch's ruled territory
- realmGoverned territory or sphere
- empireDomain under unified control
- queendomTerritory ruled by queen
- principalityNoble-ruled territory
duchy · throne · palace · court · dominion · territory · fiefdom · vassal
Successive family rulers
- successionFollowing in order
- hereditaryPassed through generations
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
- heirOne who receives legacy
regent · royal house · ancestry · primogeniture · inheritance · genealogy · noble birth · blueblood
sovereignty
Supreme independent authority
governance · command · control · power · supremacy · autocracy · absolutism · despotism · tyranny · imperial
coronation
Ceremony installing a sovereign
- enthronementFormal investiture of sovereign
- anointmentRitual application of oil
- investitureCeremony conferring rank
crowning · regalia · scepter · diadem · tiara · crown · orb · procession · ritual · pageantry
kingdom
Monarch's ruled territory
principality · duchy · throne · palace · court · dominion · territory · fiefdom · vassal · demesne
dynasty
Successive family rulers
- successionFollowing in order
- hereditaryPassed through generations
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
heir · regent · royal house · ancestry · primogeniture · inheritance · genealogy · noble birth · blueblood · aristocracy
monarchizinggroveling
Demeaning self-abasement before another
self-abasing · kowtowing · deferring · self-effacing · bowing and scraping
monarchizingdemocratizing
Making accessible to all
liberalizing · decentralizing · leveling · collectivizing · enfranchising
monarch, monarchy, monarchical, monarchist, monarchic, monarchism, monarchists, antimonarchical, antimonarchy