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matronize


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Matronize  \Mat"ron*ize\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Matronized};  p. 
  pr  &  vb  n.  {Matronizing}.] 
  1.  To  make  a  matron  of  to  make  matronlike. 
 
  Childbed  matronizes  the  giddiest  spirits. 
  --Richardson. 
 
  2.  To  act  the  part  of  a  marton  toward;  to  superintend;  to 
  chaperone;  as  to  matronize  an  assembly.