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...
   • [N]or let the nevv royaliz'd Presbyterians perſvvade themſelves that thir old doings, though novv recanted, vvill be forgotten; vvhatever Conditions by contriv'd or truſted on.1660 February, John Milton, The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, and the Excellence thereof, Compar’d with the Inconveniencies and Dangers of Readmitting Kingship in this Nation...
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...