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Avowry :: Avowry (n.) An advocate; a patron; a patron saint.

Patron :: Patron (n.) One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender..

Patron :: Patron (n.) A man of distinction under whose protection another person placed himself.

Runner :: Runner (n.) One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc..

Padrone :: Padrone (n.) A patron; a protector.

Pan :: Pan (n.) The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented..

Clientele :: Clientele (n.) The clients or dependents of a nobleman of patron.

Patronize :: Patronize (v. t.) To act as patron toward; to support; to countenance; to favor; to aid.

Patrocination :: Patrocination (n.) The act of patrocinating or patronizing.

Collative :: Collative (a.) Passing or held by collation; -- said of livings of which the bishop and the patron are the same person.

Hoity-toity :: Hoity-toity (a.) Thoughtless; giddy; flighty; also, haughty; patronizing; as, to be in hoity-toity spirits, or to assume hoity-toity airs; used also as an exclamation, denoting surprise or disapprobation, with some degree of contempt..

Pap :: Pap (n.) Nourishment or support from official patronage; as, treasury pap..

Fautor :: Fautor (n.) A favorer; a patron; one who gives countenance or support; an abettor.

Competition :: Competition (n.) The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; -- followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with..

Collate :: Collate (v. i.) To place in a benefice, when the person placing is both the patron and the ordinary..

Advowson :: Advowson (n.) The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.].

Themis :: Themis (n.) The goddess of law and order; the patroness of existing rights.

Collate :: Collate (v. t.) To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; -- followed by to..

Monarch :: Monarch (n.) A patron deity or presiding genius.

Patron :: Patron (n.) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.

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