monarchise

Oft call that prince which here doth monarchise: 5

Inexorable 1919

Let us imagine him to be gifted with the powers of the fabled basilisk, "to monarchise, be feared, and kill with looks."

Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries 1831

The vanities of sovereignty had never any particular charm for Charles V.; he was not a man who cared "to monarchise and kill with looks," or who could feel a pang at parting with the bauble of a crown; and when the wise world cried out in their surprise, and strained their fancies for the cause of conduct which seemed so strange to them, they forgot that princes who reign to labour, grow weary like the peasant of the burden of daily toil.

The Reign of Mary Tudor James Anthony Froude 1856