sovereignize

English

Etymology

sovereign +‎ -ize

Verb

sovereignize (third-person singular simple present sovereignizes, present participle sovereignizing, simple past and past participle sovereignized)

1. (transitive) To make into a sovereign; to promote to ruler.
2. (obsolete) To exercise supreme authority.
   • 1677, Tho[mas] Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Africa, and Asia the Great. […], 4th edition, London: […] R. Everingham, for R. Scot, T. Basset, J[ohn] Wright, and R. Chiswell, →OCLC, page 193:

     The firſt that ſovereignized over them that we read of was Cingis-chawn;

References

“sovereignize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.