Definition of "patronised" [patronised]

• Simple past tense and past participle of patronise. (verb)

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• "Mr.St. George "patronised" the Fitzlooms, because there was nothing else to do."
• "To call it, therefore, the 'Ladies' Man, 'is merely out of compliment to such as patronised the undertaking; and here we wish it to be particularly understood that we do not sanction the word naked as a correct term (although that term is universally applied to it), inasmuch as this statue is not naked, the modest artist having, at the suggestion of these modest ladies, taken the precaution of giving Achilles"
• "In another knot of youngsters, one girl said she had felt 'patronised' by Mr Cameron and that she preferred Gordon Brown."