Li"on*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lionized (?), p. pr. & vb. n. Lionizing ().]
1.
To treat or regard as a lion or object of great interest.
J. D. Forbes.
2.
To show the lions or objects of interest to; to conduct about among objects of interest.
Macaulay.
© Webster 1913.