signorise

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signorise (third-person singular simple present signorises, present participle signorising, simple past and past participle signorised)

(obsolete) seigniorize.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XIII, liii:
  The planets mild their lamps benign quench'd out, / And cruel stars in heav'n did signorise, // Whose influence cast fiery flames about, / And hot impressions through the earth and skies.

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seigniors, signories