† monarˈchomachist Obs.
[f. mod.L. monarchomach-us (see below) + -ist.]
One who fights against monarchy; an anti-monarchist.
| [1600 (title) G. Barclaii..de Regno et regali Potestate adversus Buchananum, Brutum, Boucherium, & reliquos Monarchomachos.] 1639 J. Corbet Ungird. Scot. Armour 30 That assertion of the Monarchomachists is not alwaies true. a 1649 Drummond of Hawthornden Sp. Wks. (1711) 219 The history which I have written, of the lives of the five kings of Scotland, may, by some monarchomachists, be challenged as scandalous. 1816 Edin. Rev. Sept. 221 The monarchom[ach]ists of the sixteenth century. |