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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MATRONIZE

v.t.To render matronlike.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MATRONIZE

Mat "ron *ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Matronized; p. pr. & vb. n.Matronizing.]

 

1. To make a matron of; to make matronlike. Childbed matronizes the giddiest spirits. Richardson.

 

2. To act the part of a marton toward; to superintend; to chaperone; as, to matronize an assembly.