impatronize
English
Alternative forms
- impatronise
Etymology
From Middle French impatroniser.[1] By surface analysis, im- + patron + -ize.
Verb
impatronize (third-person singular simple present impatronizes, present participle impatronizing, simple past and past participle impatronized)
- (archaic, transitive) To make lord, ruler 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
References
- “impatronize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ “impatronize, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.