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

Mr.St. George "patronised" the Fitzlooms, because there was nothing else to do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vivian Grey] Reference

She alleged that Zia's ministers had "patronised" the attackers who are believed to belong to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

Alistair Darling had "patronised" them by accusing them of being led astray by George Osborne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com] Reference

In another knot of youngsters, one girl said she had felt 'patronised' by Mr Cameron and that she preferred Gordon Brown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

His son resides at Fas, patronised by the Marabet Muley.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa] Reference

Henry IV. patronised Olivier de Serres and Mollet, xiv.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions] Reference

One of them is patronised by the Greek ex-Royal Family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 25th, 1920] Reference

Tenors; good work; patronised by Count Cozio.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference

Baden-Powell was promised help; the Mayor was patronised.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference

Which was patronised by the leaders of the ultra-Georgian school.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-18] Reference

This is also the street of the jewellers patronised by the peasantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

Abbeville some distance away, was patronised only by a few lucky ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion] Reference

Jody and Casey are touching, endearing, infuriating, but never patronised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tamara Drewe] Reference

Catherine di Medici (two of the astutest persons of their age) patronised them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference

I had, when a boy, patronised those machines which professed to try one's "nerve.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Queen's Error] Reference

Gould, who was a bad shot, had bagged five couple, and patronised him insufferably.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Jolliffe's Boys] Reference

Embankment electric tram-cars were running, but they seemed to be little patronised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 9, 1891] Reference

If there's one thing worse than being told you're not good enough, it's being patronised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watching EastEnders, and The Elite Squad] Reference

Its effect is unerring, and it is now patronised by royalty and hundreds of the first families.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 236, May 6, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference

St. Leger race, which was held in the month of September, and was always patronised by Royalty.    From Wordnik.com.  [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference

He appears to have been patronised by Giardini, the Violinist, according to the label here given.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference

Soldiers '' Social Evening 'on Wednesdays in Wesley Hall, which was largely patronised by the men.    From Wordnik.com.  [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference

Officers liberally patronised the men's entertainments and occasionally held jollifications of their own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference

But this act was never enforced, and in 1442 the king was himself initiated, and he patronised the society.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 491, May 28, 1831] Reference

The Emperor Seedi Muhamed ben Abdallah patronised this manufacture of his native country, and never wore any other.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa] Reference

About this time appeared those trading associations of architects who travelled over Europe, patronised by the See of Rome.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 491, May 28, 1831] Reference

Be the explanation what it may, the fact is indisputable that archæology is patronised by those who know not its real meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology] Reference

Cards are not much patronised by the present generation, yet dignity is occasionally sunk in a romping round game at Christ-tide.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide] Reference

After a while it would venture upon an oak and carry on a very voluble conversation with its fellows who also patronised the tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference

Shaftesbury, by whom the son seems to have been nobly patronised, on account of his inclination to learning and virtuous disposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850] Reference

The water with which we were supplied was indeed excellent, and the bathing places, I need not say, were very extensively patronised.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference

They are extensively patronised by the Boers, and are said to be most efficacious in every variety of rheumatic and gouty complaints.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Winter Tour in South Africa] Reference

In 1100, Henry the First patronised them; and in 1135, during the reign of Stephen, the society was under the command of Gilbert de Clare.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 491, May 28, 1831] Reference