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Poursuivant

his arms. (4) Portcullis.--This office was instituted by the same monarch, from one of whose badges the title was derived. See

the other, to the whim and caprice of an absolute monarch. Where an act is arbitrary, it is implicit in it

highest common-law court in England, presided over by the reigning monarch. The jurisdiction of this court now lies with the Queen's

Regnal, of or relating to a monarch's reign, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1288.

Chief ruler monarch sovereign a title of the Sultan of Turkey and of

A sole or supreme ruler a sovereign the highest ruler an emperor king queen prince or chief

the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a monarch

a small natural family of usually tropical butterflies including the monarch butterflies

Commonwealth other than the United Kingdom that acknowledges the British monarch as the head of state 2 : the power (as

government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president ;also