impatronize
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]impatronize (third-person singular simple present impatronizes, present participle impatronizing, simple past and past participle impatronized)
- (archaic, transitive) To make lord or master.
- 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
- He saw plainly the ambition of the French king was to impatronize himself of the duchy
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “impatronize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)