To support by being a patron of.
To be a regular customer or client of; to patronize
The act or state of being a customer of some business.
Customers collectively; clientele; business.
A communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient; condescension; disdain.
The right of nomination to political office.
Granting favours or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support.
The right of presentation to church or ecclesiastical benefice; advowson.
Guardianship, as of a saint; tutelary care.
The act of providing approval and support; backing; championship.
To provide a support for something; to raise or support by something laid under.
To lay (something) underneath something else; to put under.
To put a tap on (a shoe).
simple past tense of underlie
To incline from the vertical.
A piece of paper pasted under woodcuts, stereotype plates, etc. in a form, to bring them up to the necessary level for printing.
Lyrics; or more specifically, the way in which lyrics are assigned to musical notes.
Anything that is underlaid.
A layer (of earth, etc.) that lies under another; substratum.
A soft floor covering that lies under a carpet.