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English
Etymology
From royal + -ize.
Verb
royalize (third-person singular simple present royalizes, present participle royalizing, simple past and past participle royalized)
- (transitive) To make royal or royalist.
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 Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Ere you were queen, yea, or your husband king,
I was a pack-horse in his great affairs;
A weeder-out of his proud adversaries,
A liberal rewarder of his friends:
To royalize his blood I spilt mine own.
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- (transitive, obsolete) To make famous, to glorify, to celebrate.
c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii:For fates and Oracles, heauen haue ſworne,
To roialiſe the deeds of Tamburlaine:
And make them bleſt that ſhare in his attemptes.