signiorize

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signiorize (third-person singular simple present signiorizes, present participle signiorizing, simple past and past participle signiorized)

(obsolete, intransitive) To exercise dominion; to seigniorize.
(obsolete, transitive) To exercise dominion over; to lord it over.
- 1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], Thomas Shelton, transl., The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC:
  then should those of this beautifull damzell presently signiorize my liberty

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“signiorize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.