Patronize vs Honour - What's the difference?

As a verb patronize

is to make a patron.

, a less common spelling of honor.

* patronise (Commonwealth)

(patroniz)

To make a patron.

To assume a tone of unjustified superiority; to talk down to; to treat condescendingly.

To make oneself a customer of a business, especially a regular customer.

* (talk down to) condescend

* 1902 , Richard Francis Weymouth, Translation of the New Testament of the Bible , Book 60, 1 Peter 2:4:

Come to Him, the ever-living Stone, rejected indeed by men as worthless, but in God's esteem chosen and held in honour .

* (rfdate), Shakespeare:

If she have forgot / Honour and virtue.

* (rfdate), Milton:

Godlike erect, with native honour clad.

(en verb)