patronate

Etymology

From Latin patrōnātus. By surface analysis, patron + -ate (noun-forming suffix denoting a rank or office).

noun

  1. The right or duty of a patron; patronage.“Whose will shall be clothed with the dominancy of the matter; the will of the Home Secretary of the day, and a small body of the landlords, or the will of the recipients of the eucharist in the parish—the patronate or the congregational will?”

adj

  1. Of or relating to a patron.““L’ imperatore istesso sotto varii pretesti di spogli, di juspatronati, di concessioni apostoliche, di avocarie, di incamerationi e di pienezza di potestà trattiene le chiese gli amii vacanti, et in quel mentre se ne preride per se l’ entrate.”—[The emperor himself, under various pretexts of spolia, patronate rights, apostolical concessions, rights of advocation, of confiscation and of plenary pow”