seniorize
English
Etymology
Verb
seniorize (third-person singular simple present seniorizes, present participle seniorizing, simple past and past participle seniorized)
- (rare, ambitransitive) To make/become senior; or to exercise authority; to rule
- Synonym: lord it over
- 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, […]
References
- “seniorize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.