Royalize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make royal or royalist. transitive

    "Ere you were queen, yea, or your husband king, I was a pack-horse in his great affairs; A weeder-out of his proud adversaries, A liberal rewarder of his friends: To royalize his blood I spilt mine own."

  2. 2
    To make famous, to glorify, to celebrate. obsolete, transitive

    "For fates and Oracles, heauen haue ſworne, To roialiſe the deeds of Tamburlaine: And make them bleſt that ſhare in his attemptes."

Example

More examples

"Ere you were queen, yea, or your husband king, I was a pack-horse in his great affairs; A weeder-out of his proud adversaries, A liberal rewarder of his friends: To royalize his blood I spilt mine own."

Etymology

From royal + -ize.

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