seniorize
verbEtymology From senior + -ize.
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Ambitransitive, Rare To make/become senior; or to exercise authority; to rule
- As faire he was, as Cithereas make, / As proud as he, that ſignoriſeth hell, […]1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Fourth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 46, page 64: