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Matronize v. t. (past & past part. matronized; pres. part. matronizing)

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

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

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... to his thrifty dame— So oft our peasant's use his wife to name, "Father" and "Master" to himself applied, As life's grave duties matronize the bride— "Mother," quoth Ambrose, as he faced the north, With hard-set teeth, before he issued forth To his day labour, from the cottage door— "I'm thinking that, to-night, if not before, There'll be wild work. Dost hear old Chewton[12] roar? It's brewing up down ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXVIII. February, 1843. Vol. LIII. • Various

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