Definitionadj. drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority
Last update: September 6, 2015
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Schumacher seems to have been profoundly impressed by the administrative superiority of a strong centralised monarchy in the hands of an energetic monarch who knew his own mind; and, in politics, as in manners, France ever afterwards was his model. [Please select]
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The mediaeval state with its lack of centralised power did not depend upon a rich treasury. [Please select]
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The modern centralised state was a more complicated affair. [Please select]
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And yet he heartily admires some of the results of a centralised monarchy. [Please select]
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The feudal disorder of the Middle Ages has given way before the order of a number of highly centralised kingdoms. [Please select]
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Louis came to the throne when Mazarin and Richelieu, the two great Cardinals, had just hammered the ancient French Kingdom into the most strongly centralised state of the seventeenth century. [Please select]
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