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Patron : (noun)
1: a regular customer [syn: frequenter]
2: the proprietor of an inn
3: someone who supports or champions something [syn: sponsor,
supporter]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Patron : \Pa"tron\, n. [F., fr. L. patronus, fr. pater a father.
See Paternal, and cf. Patroon, Padrone, Pattern.]
1. One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender.
``Patron of my life and liberty.'' --Shak. ``The patron of
true holiness.'' --Spenser.
2. (Rom. Antiq.)
(a) A master who had freed his slave, but still retained
some paternal rights over him.
(b) A man of distinction under whose protection another
person placed himself.
(c) An advocate or pleader.
Let him who works the client wrong Beware the
patron's ire. --Macaulay.
3. One who encourages or helps a person, a cause, or a work;
a furtherer; a promoter; as, a patron of art.
4. (Eccl. Law) One who has gift and disposition of a
benefice. [Eng.]
5. A guardian saint. -- called also patron saint.
6. (Naut.) See Padrone, 2.
Patrons of Husbandry, the grangers. See Granger, 2.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Patron : \Pa"tron\, v. t.
To be a patron of; to patronize; to favor. [Obs.] --Sir T.
Browne.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Patron : \Pa"tron\, a.
Doing the duty of a patron; giving aid or protection;
tutelary. --Dryden.
Patron saint (R. C. Ch.), a saint regarded as the peculiar
protector of a country, community, church, profession,
etc., or of an individual.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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PATRON, eccl. law. He who has the disposition and gift of an ecclesiastical
benefice. In the Roman law it signified the former master of a freedman.
Dig. 2, 4, 8, 1.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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