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Patron
PAT'RON, n. [L. patronus; Gr. father.]
1. Among the Romans, a master who had freed his slave, and retained some rights over him after his emancipation; also, a man of distinction under whose protection another placed himself. Hence,
2. One who countenances, supports and protects either a person or a work.
3. In the church of Rome, a guardian or saint, whose name a person bears, or under whose special care he is placed and whom he invokes; or a saint in whose name a church or order is founded.
4. In the canon or common law, one who has the gift and disposition of a benefice.
5. An advocate; a defender; one that specially countenances and supports, or lends aid to advance; as patrons of the arts; a patron of useful undertakings; the patrons of virtue.
6. In seamen's language, the commander of a small vessel or passage-boat; also, one who steers a ship's long boat.
patron appears in definitions for these words:
Advowson Anathema Appendance Appropriate Appropriation Arch Auspices Avowee Beguards Client Clientship Collate Collation Collative Collator Composition Conge Countenance Dedicate Dedication Dedicator Disfavor Disturbance Donative Fautor Fautress Favorless Impetration Inscription Lapse Lapsed Motion Mund Munificent Name Orator Parricidal Patrocinate Patron Patronage Patronal Patroness Patronize Patronless Patronymic Present Presentation Presentative Prestimony Provision Provisor Reach Rime Secularization Specht Standing Tolerate Undedicated Unfostered Union Unpatronized Untruth Usurp Usurpation Usurper
Advowson Anathema Appendance Appropriate Appropriation Arch Auspices Avowee Beguards Client Clientship Collate Collation Collative Collator Composition Conge Countenance Dedicate Dedication Dedicator Disfavor Disturbance Donative Fautor Fautress Favorless Impetration Inscription Lapse Lapsed Motion Mund Munificent Name Orator Parricidal Patrocinate Patron Patronage Patronal Patroness Patronize Patronless Patronymic Present Presentation Presentative Prestimony Provision Provisor Reach Rime Secularization Specht Standing Tolerate Undedicated Unfostered Union Unpatronized Untruth Usurp Usurpation Usurper
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