0 past simple and past participle of patronize
1 to speak to or behave towards someone as if they are stupid or not important:
Stop patronizing me - I understand the play as well as you do.
2 to be a regular customer of a shop or restaurant, etc.:
The restaurant was patronized by many artists and writers during the 1920s.
Patronized by courtiers and under the control of city magistrates, the theatre was also from its inception closely connected with government.
How the local population reacted to their new existence as a contested and often patronized community reveals the complicated subtext to the region's history.
However, it seemed to be one of the more frequently patronized courier services.
Which musicians and genres should be patronized was determined by their putative 'natural' audience in society at large.
The family exercised the virtues of ' spirit' and ' pluck ' in sport - ancient and modern, played and patronized.
They seem to have been patronized primarily by men from the nobility, wealthy burghers and 'non-nobles of high standing'.
Shopping centers are typically, but not exclusively, patronized by secular middle and upper middle classes, who often reside in new kinds of suburban, residential areas.
These libraries (often located within bookshops) were heavily patronized by women.
