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The district under a Roman tetrarch; the office or jurisdiction of a tetrarch; a tetrarchate.

Divinely sovereign or supreme. [R.] He [Jesus] is the thearchic Intelligence. Milman.

Government by God; divine sovereignty; theocracy.

The ruler or principal man in a place or country; the governor of a toparchy. The prince and toparch of that country. Fuller.

A small state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a petty country governed by a toparch; as, Judea was formerly divided into ten toparchies. Fuller.

Government by three persons; a triumvirate; also, a country under three rulers. Holland.

The commander of a trireme.

The office duty of a trierarch.

Dried up; withered by heat. [Obs.] "My tongue . . . unparched." Crashaw.

Not searchable; inscrutable; hidden; mysterious. The counsels of God are to us unsearchable. Rogers. -- Un*search"a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*search"a*bly, adv.

To free from starch; to make limp or pliable.

Government by Whigs. [Cont] Swift.

An office Dr. W. Smith.

The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.

To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye. [Archaic] Bacon. Saying so, he abased his lance. Shelton.

ptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch.

or dignity. Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy. Burke.

The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach.

To put an end to, or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out. [Archaic] And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot. Spenser. His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him. Tennyson.

Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch; as, the Abrachamic covenant.