Verb (used with object) : to lionize the visiting poet.    From Dictionary.com. 

You can tell a lot about people from the individuals whom they choose to eulogise, lionise or sanitise.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

They move to the right because they find that when they do so the newspaper proprietors and government officials and foundations send them invitations and lionise them.    From Wordnik.com.  [From porn to Portillo | Mark Lawson] Reference

For the past four years, one of our goals has been to lionise the sources who take the real risks in nearly every journalistic disclosure, and without whose efforts, journalists would be nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Britain requests details of Julian Assange case, fueling speculation he is there] Reference

If you can overlook Watergate in Nixon's case in order to lionise his other achievements, why not overlook Churchill's one great moment (WW2) and trumpet his utter incompetency in every other endeavour?.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Top Ten Political Heroes] Reference

So who are these people who lionise the cold-blooded murderer?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

New Cavalry Brigade, and in view of a popular desire to lionise De.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Heels of De Wet] Reference

I had only met her once before, but she took it into her head to lionise me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Picture of Dorian Gray] Reference

This wasn't banter like we used to rib Robinson and lionise Leaburn's limitations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soccer Blogs - latest posts] Reference

They tried to lionise me in drawing rooms and make me talk for their entertainment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shrieking Pit] Reference

"You don't propose to lionise me, I hope, Gray?" said Seton, as Gray returned to his seat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dope] Reference

Please do not lionise these people until they start working for the common man on the street.    From Wordnik.com.  [MoJo Blogs and Articles] Reference

She deserves a little extra pleasure; you must take her under your protection, and lionise her well. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scenes and Characters] Reference

We should not lionise her for disgraceful behaviour in the air - with an unattended small child in tow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Strangely, Irish Lefties, who normally lionise the IRA hunger strikers, have been notably silent on this one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Schnabel wants to lionise three generations of Palestinian women fighting in their different ways for freedom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

The inhabitants of areas governed by forest law loathed it, and would have been likely to lionise anyone who flouted it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Others lionise open-source stars, such as Linus Torvalds, who wrote the first version of Linux, a popular operating system.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economist: Correspondent's diary] Reference

Gauger of him; lionise him, bedinner him, for a foolish while; then whistle him down the wind, to desperation and bitter death?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference

Davis who you lionise did object to 42 day detention, but hd didn't have the bottle to campaign for less than 28 day detention did he?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk] Reference

I also think that you tend to lionise the parent who isn't there because they're not around for you to see their frailties and shortcomings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

They get no support from those who lionise them while they are fighting their wars, but then abandon them when they no longer serve any use.    From Wordnik.com.  [Socialist Worker (Britain)] Reference

Attempts were made to “lionise” him; but were met with his distinct disapproval, though it was always a pleasure to him to be looked upon as a celebrity.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Borrow in East Anglia] Reference

He whom London once tried hard, but in vain, to lionise, lived during some of the last years of his life in Hereford Square, unknown to any save about a dozen friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest] Reference

And yet, despite the way we lionise our heroes, copying their haircuts and tattoos, naming our children after their children, deep down we know they have feet of clay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Can he do nothing for his Burns but make a Gauger of him; lionise him, bedinner him, for a foolish while; then whistle him down the wind, to desperation and bitter death?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Past and Present] Reference

After partaking of some refreshment, and adjusting my dress, we sallied forth to lionise, as Tom called it, which is the Oxford term for gazing about, usually applied to strangers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life] Reference

For the past four years one of our goals has been to lionise the source who take the real risks in nearly every journalistic disclosure and without whose efforts, journalists would be nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

The Shia-led regime is highly sensitive to the re-emergence of any symbols that might lionise the remnants of the Ba'athist rank and file, which still orchestrates bombings and assassinations every few days.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

To lionise individuals is asking for trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Did he want to marry you, or only to lionise you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle] Reference

1988) lionise Chavez.    From Wordnik.com.  [Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference