MATRONIZE

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To make a matron of; to make matronlike. Childbed matronizes the giddiest spirits. Richardson.

2.
v.

To act the part of a marton toward; to superintend; to chaperone; as, to matronize an assembly.


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