Impatronizing

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Impatronize \Im*pat"ron*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Impatronized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impatronizing}.]
     To make lord or master; as, to impatronize one's self of a
     seigniory. [R.] --Bacon.
     [1913 Webster]