1.One who reigns over a state or territory, usually for life and by hereditary right, especially: a.A sole and absolute ruler. b.A sovereign, such as a king or empress, often with constitutionally limited authority:a constitutional monarch. ...
He who reignsMonarch in heaven, . . . upheld by old repute. Monarch One superior to all others of the same kind; as, an oak is called the monarch of the forest. Monarch A patron deity or presiding genius. Come, thou, monarch of the vine,Plumpy Bacchus. Monarch A very large red and...
The Burmese kingdom continued to harass Siam throughout the early Chakri reigns. In 1785 it launched a massive invasion of the country, which was repelled only with great difficulty. Other, lesser attacks followed. Not until the 1820s, when British encroachment on Burmese territory forced Burman...
A Journal of the reigns of King George IV, King Wil- liam IV and Queen Victoria by the late Charles C.F. GREVILLE, hg.v. Henry REEVE, Lon- don 1888, Bd. 6, S. 127-133. Vgl. zur Debatte bereits Johannes PAULMANN, >Germanismus< am englischen Hof, oder: Warum war Prinz Albert...