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royalise

royalise is the alternative form of royalize.

Meaning of royalize

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To make (someone) royal or royalist.
    • Ere you vvere queen, yea, or your huſband king, / I vvas a pack-horſe in his great affairs; / A vveeder-out of his proud adverſaries, / A liberal revvarder of his friends: / To royalize his blood I ſpilt mine ovvn.c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To make famous, to glorify, to celebrate.
    • For fates and Oracles, heauen haue ſvvorne, / To roialiſe the deeds of Tamburlaine: / And make them bleſt that ſhare in his attemptes.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...

Forms of royalise

third-person singular presentroyalises
present participleroyalising
past participleroyalised
pastroyalised

Origin of royalise

From royal + -ise.

Questions about royalise

What is royalise the alternative form of?
Royalise is the alternative form of royalize.

Words near royalise in the dictionary

  1. royaler
  2. royales
  3. royalest
  4. royalet
  5. royalets
  6. royalise
  7. royalised
  8. royalises
  9. royalisin
  10. royalising
  11. royalism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: royalise (page history and authors); royalize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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