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Chief; primary; primordial. [Obs.] Cudworth.

government; in political confusion; tending to produce anarchy; as, anarchic despotism; anarchical opinions.

Opposed to monarchial government. Bp. Benson. Addison.

Pertaining to a hierarchy. -- Hi`er*arch`ic*al*ly, adv.

Presiding over matter. [Obs.] Hallywell.

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

Of or pertaining to oligarchy, or government by a few. "Oligarchical exiles." Jowett (Thucyd. ).

Of or pertaining to a tetrarch or tetrarchy. Bolingbroke.

Lawless; anarchical. [R.] We are in the habit of calling those bodies of men anarchal which are in a state of effervescence. Landor.

ng, a king; characteristic of, resembling, a king; directed or administered by a king; monarchical; royal; sovereign; regal; august; noble; grand. "Kingly magnificence." Sir P. Sidney. "A kingly government." Swift. "The kingly couch." Shak. The kingliest kings are crowned with thorn. G. Massey. Leave kingly backs to co…

of government; having tendency toward democratic or republican, as distinguished from monarchical or aristocratic, forms; as, liberal thinkers; liberal Christians; the Liberal party. I confess I see nothing liberal in this " order of thoughts," as Hobbes elsewhere expresses it. Hazlitt.

A member of an oligarchy; one of the rulers in an oligarchical government.

of a king (as of Charles I. in England, or of the Bourbons in france); one attached to monarchical government. Where Ca'ndish fought, the Royalists prevailed. Waller.