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A system or wireless telegraphy developed by G. Marconi, an Italian physicist, in which Hertzian waves are used in transmission and a coherer is used as the receiving instrument.

The law that the maximum good signaling distance varies directly as the square of the height of the transmitting antenna.

A Marconi wireless message.

The apparatus used in Marconi wireless telegraphy.

The theory or practice of Marconi's wireless telegraph system.

A wasting away of flesh; decay. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

One of a Gnostic sect of the second century, so called from Marcus, an Egyptian, who was reputed to be a margician.

The mother and ruler of a family or of her descendants; a ruler by maternal right.

Of or pertaining to a matriarch; governed by a matriarch.

The office or jurisdiction of a matriarch; a matriarchal form of government.

A form of corbel arch employing regular small corbels.

sovereign; the highest ruler; an emperor, king, queen, prince, or chief. He who reigns Monarch in heaven, ... upheld by old repute. Milton.

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

A female monarch. [Obs.]

Monarchic. Burke.

One of a sect in the early Christian church which rejected the doctrine of the Trinity; -- called also patripassian.

Of or pertaining to a monarch, or to monarchy. Burke. -- Mo*nar"chic*al*ly, adv.

The principles of, or preference for, monarchy.

An advocate of, or believer in, monarchy.

To play the sovereign; to act the monarch. [R.] Shak.