clientelagen.

1660 F. Philipps Tenenda non Tollenda vii. 263 The Roman Souldiers..before their course and custom of Patronage, & Clyentelage had taken root..hath told us how like Egiptian Reeds such a way of raising men to defend the King..will be to those that shall most trust or leane upon it.

1706 C. Gildon Rev. Princess Sophia's Lett. 60 The Men from whom the Nation has most to Fear..receiv'd the People into their Protection, and Clientelage.

1832 J.-C.-L. S. de Sismondi Hist. Ital. Republics viii. 187 With the same enthusiasm and spirit of clientelage.

1883 S. W. Williams Middle Kingdom (new ed.) I. 461 The system of clientelage which existed among the Gauls and Franks is also found in China with some modifications.

1962 Past & Present 22 48 The aristocracy had, on the whole, a high sense of public duty. Clientelage never developed into a political danger.

2009 A. Chittick Patronage & Community Medieval China i. 8 Personal clientelage ties are by their very nature not systematically delineated in written materials.

1843 Colonial Gaz. 23 Sept. 593/1 To act as patrons to a colonial clientelage is out of their way.

1879 A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand xxi. 124 Every family there has its clientelage..who rally to its lead as quickly..as the old Scottish clansmen.

1907 Inland Printer Dec. 423/1 Their relation to the industries behind the printing trade was and is very much like that of the Roman clientelage to the haughty patricians.

2000 G. Dávid in G. Dávid & P. Fodor Ottomans, Hungarians, & Habsburgs Central Europe 280 Sometimes it is even doubtful whether he [sc. Mustafa] belonged to the clientelage of Kasim.