signiorize

English

Etymology

From signior +‎ -ize.

Verb

signiorize (third-person singular simple present signiorizes, present participle signiorizing, simple past and past participle signiorized)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To exercise dominion; to seigniorize.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To exercise dominion over; to lord it over.
   • 1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC:

     then should those of this beautifull damzell presently signiorize my liberty

References

“signiorize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.