v. Obs. Also 7 soueraignise, -ize, soveraignize, -eignize; souer-, soveranize, -ise. [f. SOVEREIGN sb. + -IZE. Cf. Pg. soberanizar.] intr. To exercise supreme power; to rule as a sovereign. (Common in 17th cent.)
1601. Chester, Love’s Mart., etc. (1878), 3. Her princely eyes … That ore the day and night do soueraignize.
1661. Sir A. Haselrig’s Last Will & Test., 1. O Bishoprick, where in my Regality I so much Soveraigniz’d, or, as some will have it, Tyranniz’d.
1680. Morden, Geog. Rect., Arabia (1688), 369. Nimrod Sovereignizing at Babylon.
b. Similarly with it.
1656. S. H., Gold. Law, 39. Every several Sect, Church, and Faction are in Arms … to Rule and Soveraignize it if they can.
Hence † Sovereignizing ppl. a. Obs.
1621. Lady M. Wroth, Urania, 463. Intreated by the soueraignizing Queen to make relation of her end.
1630. Brathwait, Eng. Gentlew. (1641), 363–4. Soveraignizing Saladine … called his Chiefetaine or Generall before him.
