patronate

From Latin patrōnātus.^[1] By surface analysis, patron +‎ -ate (noun-forming suffix denoting a rank or office).

patronate (uncountable)

1. The right or duty of a patron; patronage.
   • 1843 August, J. R., “Art[icle] XI.—The People and the Church of Scotland. A Reply to Sir James Graham and the Government. By J. White, A.M. Sherwood.”, in The Westminster Review, volume XL, number I, London: Samuel Clarke, , page 196:

     Whose will shall be clothed with the dominancy of the matter; the will of the Home Secretary of the day, and a small body of the landlords, or the will of the recipients of the eucharist in the parish—the patronate or the congregational will?

From the noun or Latin patrōnātus.^[2] By surface analysis, patron +‎ -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

patronate (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to a patron.
   • 1847, Leopold Ranke, anonymous translator, “Appendix. List of the Manuscripts That Have Been Consulted, Supplementary Extracts, and Critical Observations.”, in The Poets of Rome; Their Church and State in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. , volume II, Glasgow; Edinburgh; London: Blackie and Son: , section 96, page 442:

     “L’ imperatore istesso sotto varii pretesti di spogli, di juspatronati, di concessioni apostoliche, di avocarie, di incamerationi e di pienezza di potestà trattiene le chiese gli amii vacanti, et in quel mentre se ne preride per se l’ entrate.”—[The emperor himself, under various pretexts of spolia, patronate rights, apostolical concessions, rights of advocation, of confiscation and of plenary power, keeps the churches in vacant years, and meanwhile takes their revenues to himself.]

   • a. 1857, Hugh Miller, “Rambles of a Geologist; or, Ten Thousand Miles over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland”, in The Cruise of the Betsey; . With Rambles of a Geologist; , Edinburgh: Thomas Constable and Co.; London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., published 1858, chapter X, page 393:

     The patronate wedge, like that appropriated by Achan, has been disastrous to the people, for it has lost to them the great benefits of a religious Establishment, and very great these are; […]

   • 1878, [Gotthard Victor] Lechler, translated by Peter Lorimer, “Robert Grossetête, Bishop of Lincoln”, in John Wiclif and His English Precursors , volume I, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., , page 46:

     And since the doings of the Curia are a lesson to the world, such a manner of appointment to the cure of souls on its part, teaches and encourages all who have patronate rights to make pastoral appointments of a like kind, as a return for services rendered to themselves, or to please men in power, and in this way to destroy the sheep of Christ.

patronate

1. present adverbial passive participle of patroni