Meanings
verbseniorize (third-person singular simple present seniorizes, present participle seniorizing, simple past and past participle seniorized)
present singular third person seniorizes · participle present seniorizing · participle past seniorized · past seniorized
- ambitransitiverareTo make or become senior.
- obsoletetransitiveTo exercise authority over; to rule.
As faire he was, as Cithereas make, / As proud as he, that ſignoriſeth hell, […]
1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Fourth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 46, page 64Synonyms: lord it over
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo exercise authority over; to rule.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “seniorize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/seniorize.
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