clientagen.

1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 40 Them which were of the faction, and clientage of Herod.

1682 G. Savile Second Return to Lett. of Noble Peer 1 Nothing was ever more..defended by that Lord's Clientage.

1838 Satirist 8 Apr. 108/3 The black consommé doled out to the faithful in chapel and conventicle on this subject, by..Lord Brougham's devoted clientage.

1873 E. A. Freeman Compar. Polit. 261 The lowly clientage of the Roman Patrician.

1917 Lancaster Law Rev. 34 287/2 The community, his clientage and the Bar will long remember him with respect, affection and esteem.

1976 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 17 543 He was able to entertain on a large scale and to distribute stock to his clientage.

2007 A. Keaveney Army in Rom. Revol. ii. 31 In 83, from among the clientage his father Pompey Strabo had established in Picenum, he raised an army to fight on the side of Sulla.

1777 C. Butler Ess. Legality of impressing Seamen vi. 66 Something very like the patronage and clientage of the feudal law, did at least prevail.

1820 Morning Post 10 Oct. One who promulgates that clientage has claims upon advocacy for treason and civil confusion.

1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. i. 24 Protected in a sort of clientage by one of the princes of the blood.

1902 Amer. Hist. Rev. 7 241 All their historians down to the time of Pompey belonged to distinguished families by relationship or clientage.

1953 Econ. Hist. Rev. 6 33 The Crown started to manage its estate as a source of income rather than as a basis for clientage.

1986 P. Maylam Hist. Afr. People S. Afr. 61 The inferior, dependent status associated with clientage soon rankled with many Mfengu.

2004 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 4 Nov. 48/2 It is impossible to understand the conquest and settlement of America without taking into account the part played by the Extremadura connection, one of several such connections based on clientage, friendship, and family ties.