seniorize

English

Etymology

From senior +‎ -ize.

Verb

seniorize (third-person singular simple present seniorizes, present participle seniorizing, simple past and past participle seniorized)

1. (rare, transitive, intransitive) To make or become senior.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To exercise authority; to rule; to lord it.
   • 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Fourth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 46, page 64:

     As faire he was, as Cithereas make, / As proud as he, that ſignoriſeth hell, […]

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “seniorize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• reionizes