Verb (used with object), : a professor who patronizes his students.    From Dictionary.com. 

Swarmed around to "patronise" him, was the toughest of tough jobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 16, 1892] Reference

Which of the Greek tragedians do you patronise?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843] Reference

Extremely poor people were not likely to patronise.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

If he picked me up I suppose I ought to patronise him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Red Chimney Being the Love Story of a Candy Man] Reference

So he'll patronise friends who don't want to become enemies.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

When he began on his small salary, did he patronise the office-boy?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 19, 1891] Reference

He says (dear old boy!) that we should "patronise British Industry.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 6, 1891] Reference

Don't try to give me lessons in winning wars, let alone patronise me.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Since Sydney seemed disposed to patronise me, I was bent on snubbing him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

After all, where would modern liberalism be without victims to patronise.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

That jerk certainly picked the wrong woman to patronise. eenymeenymineymo.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Nugent, who can afford to patronise or throw over-board whomsoever she will.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference

Number PlateL You must patronise some loos with a rather literate clientele.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege] Reference

I have to thank the deadlock for teaching me to patronise the river steamboats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 20, 1891] Reference

"Do you not believe that if they lived to-day they would patronise our fashions?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference

Saturday not to patronise Khartoum's most popular cafe among Western expatriates.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Langa also warned against the tendency to patronise and to speak on behalf of others.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

You never patronise us like the liberals who talk to us like we r kids. keep going sis!.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

He was the life and soul of Charity Cup Ties, and never failed to turn out to patronise them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches] Reference

Azapo's "stretch the rand" campaign called on black people to patronise one another's business.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Poentjak, without reserve, we advise pilgrims to Sindanglaya to patronise the road from Tjiandjoer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across the Equator A Holiday Trip in Java] Reference

It was principally a Welsh concert, he urged, and he considered it right to patronise native talent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference

This Plate describes, in the strongest colours, the distress of an author without friends to patronise him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference

The Liberians must as a policy as much as possible patronise home manufactured, and home produced articles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party] Reference

The little place I usually patronise was very full, and I had to sit at a table where a woman was already seated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unnatural Death]

Frank McGill - your post defines what I despise most about some members of your party so I will not patronise you.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Oh, and I do of course know about the White Rose - so I suggest any further attempts to patronise me are redundant.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

After tt she still have the cheek to ask suvita to barrow the hatch and stuff n ask us to still patronise the stall!.    From Wordnik.com.  [*HAPPY BIRTHDAY!*] Reference

Meanwhile you can't expect Americans to show much respect for national leaders and journalistic pundits who patronise them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

Despite the prevailing glumness, however, the populace turned out to patronise a gymkhana entertainment at the Light Horse camp.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference

I don't patronise Muslim businesses because all adult Muslims pay a tithe (zakhat) to their mosque of 5% of their annual income.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

On a more serious note, I was not trying to patronise or belittle you when I suggested that you employ paragraphs in your posts.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

At the present time there is a growing desire to patronise perennial plants, more especially the many and beautiful varieties known as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

You manage to patronise the reader whilst at the same time demonstrating a complete lack of appreciation re-contemporary State teaching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference

He was a pavement artist and he had a pitch outside the railings of the great terminus in Euston Road, where he used to sit and patronise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference