单词 | patronized |
释义 | patronizedadj. 1. Protected, supported, watched over. ΚΠ 1611 J. Maxwell in tr. Treasure of Tranquillity Ep. Ded. sig. a6v You be not of any patronized order, as of the Palestinian, White-crossie order of Saint Iohn. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. i. 28 Vnto this falsely patronized Chappell, they offer yearely many rich gifts. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks iii. ii. 304 One may easily imagine that such patroniz'd and avow'd Authors as these, wou'd be shrewdly disappointed if the Publick took no notice of their Labours. 1828 R. Montgomery Age Reviewed (ed. 2) ii. 217 I should be still more sorry to gloss over patronized vice, with soft, unexpressive allusions. 1874 Internat. Rev. 1 295 Pontifical Rome..was a petted and patronized city, a city whose monuments embody, not the energy of her people, but the bounty, the vanity of her princes. 2002 Gulf News (Nexis) 17 Dec. Pointing to causes of failure of democracy in Pakistan, he said policies were made for a patronised class only. 2. Treated with condescension; belittled, esp. by another person's apparent kindness or attentiveness. ΚΠ 1953 Phylon 14 264 The ‘evolué’ from the Congo is to the people of Belgium still a patronized, interesting phenomenon. 1991 M. Bragg Maid of Buttermere (BNC) 113 Should she not please sooner or later, she would be taboo, a mocked and patronised spinster. 1998 Independent 26 May i. 9/1 Members of the group said they had felt patronised, excluded, assumed to be stupid and treated as an inconvenience. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1611 |
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