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royalize en · VERB

Etymology

From royal + -ize.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To make (someone) royal or royalist.
   • Ere you vvere queen, yea, or your huſband king, / I vvas a pack-horſe in his great affairs; / A vveeder-out of his proud adverſaries, / A liberal revvarder of his friends: / To royalize his blood I ſpilt mine ovvn. c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
   • [N]or let the nevv royaliz'd Presbyterians perſvvade themſelves that thir old doings, though novv recanted, vvill be forgotten; vvhatever Conditions by contriv'd or truſted on. 1660 February, John Milton, The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, and the Excellence thereof, Compar’d with the Inconveniencies and Dangers of Readmitting Kingship in this Nation; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume II, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 793:
2. (obsolete, transitive) To make famous, to glorify, to celebrate.
   • For fates and Oracles, heauen haue ſvvorne, / To roialiſe the deeds of Tamburlaine: / And make them bleſt that ſhare in his attemptes. c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii:

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