Word Meanings - PATRONIZATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of patronizing; patronage; support.

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• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• PATRONIZING
  Showing condescending favor; assuming the manner of airs of a superior toward another. -- Pat"ron*i`zing*ly, adv. Thackeray.
• PATRONIZER
  One who patronizes.
• SUPPORTFUL
  Abounding with support. Chapman.
• SUPPORTLESS
  Having no support. Milton.
• SUPPORT
  convey, in LL., to support, sustain; sub under + portare to carry. 1. To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar supports a structure; an
• SUPPORTER
  A knee placed under the cathead. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. Bacon. The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries. South.
• PATRONIZE
  1. To act as patron toward; to support; to countenance; to favor; to aid. The idea has been patronized by two States only. A. Hamilton. 3. To assume the air of a patron, or of a superior and protector, toward; -- used in an unfavorable sense; as,
• SUPPORTMENT
  Support. Sir H. Wotton.
• PATRONIZATION
  The act of patronizing; patronage; support.
• SUPPORTRESS
  A female supporter. You are my gracious patroness and supportress. Massinger.
• PATRONAGE
  The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson. Blackstone. (more info) 1. Special countenance or support; favor, encouragement, or aid, afforded to a person or a work; as, the patronage of letters; patronage given to
• SUPPORTANCE
  Support. Shak.
• INSUPPORTABLE
  Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- In`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• UNSUPPORTABLE
  Insupportable; unendurable. -- Un`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Wilkins. -- Un`sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• TRANSPATRONIZE
  To transfer the patronage of. Warner.
• IMPATRONIZE
  To make lord or master; as, to impatronize one's self of a seigniory. Bacon.
• IMPATRONIZATION
  Absolute seignory or possession; the act of investing with such possession. Cotgrave.