royalize

English

Etymology

From royal +‎ -ize.

Verb

royalize (third-person singular simple present royalizes, present participle royalizing, simple past and past participle royalized)

  1. (transitive) To make royal or royalist.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To make famous, to glorify, to celebrate.
    • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. [] The First Part [], 2nd edition, part 1, London: [] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, [], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii:
      For fates and Oracles, heauen haue ſworne,
      To roialiſe the deeds of Tamburlaine:
      And make them bleſt that ſhare in his attemptes.