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impatronize

verb

  1. To make lord, ruler or master.

    archaic, transitive

    He saw plainly the ambition of the French king was to impatronize himself of the duchy

Where it comes from

From Middle French impatroniser. By surface analysis, im- + patron + -ize.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry impatronize (CC BY-SA 4.0).

← impasteimped →

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