Word Meanings - MATRONIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To make a matron of; to make matronlike. Childbed matronizes the giddiest spirits. Richardson. 2. To act the part of a marton toward; to superintend; to chaperone; as, to matronize an assembly.

Related words: (words related to MATRONIZE)

• MATRONAL
  Of or pertaining to a matron; suitable to an elderly lady or to a married woman; grave; motherly.
• CHILDBIRTH
  The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
• TOWARD; TOWARDS
  1. In the direction of; to. He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards'' the pebbled shore. Shak. 2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. His eye shall be evil
• MATRON
  1. A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners. Your wives, your daughters, Your matrons, and your maids. Shak. Grave from her cradle, insomuch that she was a matron before she was a
• TOWARDS
  See TOWARD
• TOWARDNESS
  Quality or state of being toward.
• ASSEMBLY
  A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble. Note: In some of the United States, the legislature, or the popular branch of it, is called the Assembly, or the General Assembly. In the Presbyterian Church, the General
• MATRONIZE
  1. To make a matron of; to make matronlike. Childbed matronizes the giddiest spirits. Richardson. 2. To act the part of a marton toward; to superintend; to chaperone; as, to matronize an assembly.
• MATRONLY
  1. Advanced in years; elderly. 2. Like, or befitting, a matron; grave; sedate.
• SUPERINTENDER
  A superintendent.
• MATRONYMIC
  See METRONYMIC
• CHILDBED
  The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.
• TOWARDLY
  See DRYDEN
• TOWARDLINESS
  The quality or state of being towardly; docility; tractableness. The beauty and towardliness of these children moved her brethren to envy. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPERINTENDENT
  One who has the oversight and charge of some place, institution, or organization, affairs, etc., with the power of direction; as, the superintendent of an almshouse; the superintendent of public works. Syn. -- Inspector; overseer; manager; director;
• CHILDBEARING
  The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition. Milton. Addison.
• SUPERINTEND
  To have or exercise the charge and oversight of; to oversee with the power of direction; to take care of with authority; to supervise; as, an officer superintends the building of a ship or the construction of a fort. The king may appoint a council,
• MATRONLIKE
  Like a matron; sedate; grave; matronly.
• TOWARD
  1. Approaching; coming near. "His toward peril." Spenser. 2. Readly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable; as, a toward youth. 3. Ready to act; forward; bold; valiant. Why, that is spoken like a toward prince.
• MATRONHOOD
  The state of being a matron.
• UNTOWARDLY
  Perverse; froward; untoward. "Untowardly tricks and vices." Locke.
• WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY
  See ASSEMBLY