Word: patronism
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...George, the patron saint of England, earned his place in medieval Christian legend by spearing a dragon that was just about to gobble up a Libyan maiden. St. Christopher was a sort of Jolly Green Giant of the early church who ferried wayfarers across a river on his back; one of his passengers turned out to be the child Jesus, and Christopher naturally became the patron saint of travelers...
Cecilia, a Roman beauty who was whacked to death with a sword after her pagan captors failed to suffocate her in an overheated bathroom, was made the patron of music and musicians because she "sang to the Lord in her heart" on her wedding...
Speaking before a gathering of top University officials, Faculty members, and patrons of the Center, Pusey sketched the history of his efforts to obtain a home for the arts at Harvard, and said that "there never was a more generous and more understanding patron" than Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter '05, who donated...
...restaurant in Formosa follows the practice of many a good American seafood house: the patron is invited to select his dinner before it is cooked. There are cages of boxers and dachshunds and mongrel pups to choose from, but chow is considered the best...
...Johnson, a flatterer was a "claw-back"; a bad doctor, a "quacksalver." Only a wantwit or a clodpate can fail to get some notion of Johnson's character in his definition of a dedication as "a servile address to a patron," or a pension as "pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country." Though Johnson is said to be the great Latinizer of English, English never did get Latinized. Today no one calls a cow pasture a "vaccary," and infants are weaned, not "ablactated...