Mo*nol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. &?;.] The habit of soliloquizing, or of
monopolizing conversation.
It was not by an insolent usurpation that Coleridge persisted in
monology through his whole life.
De Quincey.
{ ||Mon`o*ma"chi*a (?), Mo*nom"a*chy (?), } n. [L. monomachia, Gr. &?;,
fr. &?; fighting in single combat; mo`nos single, alone + &?; to
fight.] A duel; single combat. "The duello or monomachia." Sir W.
Scott.
Mo*nom"a*chist (?), n. One who fights in single combat; a duelist.