royalize

verb

roy·​al·​ize

-ed/-ing/-s

transitive verb

archaic : to make royal

to royalize his blood I spilled my own

—Shakespeare

intransitive verb

obsolete : to assume royal power

Word History

First Known Use

1589, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

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