Etymology

impatronize

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Today it means: To make lord, ruler or master. Full definition →

Middle French impatroniser
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  1. Middle French · borrowed fromimpatroniser
  2. English todayimpatronize

From Middle French impatroniser. By surface analysis, im- + patron + -ize.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.