Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MO-NARCH'AL, a.

Pertaining to a monarch; suiting a monarch; sovereign; regal; imperial. Satan, whom now transcendent glory raised / Above his fellows, with monarchal pride. Milton.

MON'ARCH-ESS, n.

A female monarch; an empress.

MO-NARCH'IC, or MO-NARCHIC-AL, a.

1. Vested in a single ruler; as, monarchical government or power.
2. Pertaining to monarchy.

MON'ARCH-ISM, n.

The principles of monarchy; love or it preference of monarchy. Jefferson.

MON'ARCH-IST, n.

An advocate of monarchy. Barrow.

MON'ARCH-IZE, v.i.

To play the king; to set the monarch. Shak.

MON'ARCHIZE, v.t.

1. To rule; to govern.
2. To convert to a monarchy. Milton.

MON'ARCH-IZ-ED, pp.

Converted to a monarchy.

MON'ARCH-IZ-ING, ppr.

Governing; changing to a monarchy.

MON'ARCH-Y, n. [Gr. μοναρχια. See Monarch.]

1. A state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a single person. Such a state is usually called an empire or a kingdom; and we usually give this denomination to a large state only. But the same name is sometimes given to a kingdom or state in which the power of the king or supreme magistrate is limited by a constitution, or by fundamental laws. Such is the British monarchy. Hence we speak of absolute or despotic monarchies, and of limited monarchies. A free government has a great advantage over a simple monarchy. J. Adams.
2. A kingdom; an empire. Shak.

MON'AS-TE-RI-AL, a.

Pertaining to a monastery.

MON'AS-TER-Y, n. [Fr. monastère; It. monastero; Sp. monasterio; Low L. monasterium; Gr. μοναστεριον, from μονος, sole, separate; W. môn.]

A house of religious retirement, or of seclusion from ordinary temporal concerns, whether an abbey, a priory or a nunnery. The word is usually applied to the houses of monks, mendicant friars and nuns. Encyc.

MO-NAS'TIC, or MO-NAS'TIC-AL, a. [Fr. monastique; It. monastico; Low L. monasticus; Gr. μοναστικος, from μονος, sole, separate.]

Pertaining to monasteries, monks and nuns; recluse; secluded from the temporal concerns of life and devoted to religion; as, a monastic life; monastic orders. Denham.

MO-NAS'TIC, n.

A monk.

MO-NAS'TIC-AL-LY, adv.

Reclusely; in a retired manner; in the manner of monks. Swift.

MO-NAS'TI-CISM, n.

Monastic life. Milner.

MO-NAS'TI-CON, n.

A book giving account of monasteries.

MON'DAY, n. [Sax. monandæg; D. maandag; G. montag; moon and day; being formerly sacred to that planet.]

The second day of the week.

MONDE, n. [Fr.]

The world; also, a globe, an ensign of authority. Drummond.

MO-NE'CIAN, a.

Pertaining to the class of plants above described.

MO-NE'CIAN, n. [Gr. μονος, sole, and οικος, house.]

In botany, plants whose stamens and pistils are in distinct flowers, both growing upon the same individual.

MON'E-TA-RY, a.

Pertaining to money or consisting in money. Quart. Rev.

MON'EY, n. [plur. Moneys; Sax. mynet; D. munt, mint; G. münze; Sw. mynt; Dan. myndt, money or mint; Fr. monnoie; Ir. monadh; W. mwnai; Sp. moneda; Port. moeda, contracted; L. and It. moneta. Money and mint are the same word varied.]

1. Coin; stamped metal; any piece of metal, usually gold, silver or copper, stamped by public authority, and used as the medium of commerce. We sometimes give the name of money to other coined metals, and to any other material which rude nations use as a medium of trade. But among modern commercial nations, gold, silver, platinum and copper are the only metals used for this purpose. Gold, platinum and silver, containing great value in a small compass, and being therefore of easy conveyance, and being also durable and little liable to diminution by use, are the most convenient metals for coin or money, which is the representative of commodities of all kinds, of lands, and of every thing that is capable of being transferred in commerce.
2. Bank notes or bills of credit issued by authority, and exchangeable for coin or redeemable, are also called money; as such notes in modern times represent coin, and are used as a substitute for it. If a man pays in hand for goods in bank notes which are current, he is said to pay in ready money.
3. Wealth; affluence. Money can neither open new avenues to pleasure, nor block up the passages of anguish. Rambler.

MON'EY-AGE, n.

Anciently, in England, a general land tax levied by the two first Norman kings, a shilling on each hearth. Hume.

MON'EY-BAG, n.

A bag or purse for holding money. Addison.