enpatron
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]enpatron (third-person singular simple present enpatrons, present participle enpatroning, simple past and past participle enpatroned)
- (obsolete, transitive, nonce word) To act the part of a patron towards; to patronize.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
- Since I their Aulter, you enpatrone me.