1843. Carlyle, Past & Present, iv. 6. Can he do nothing for his
Burns but lionize him?
1860. Caroline Fox, Journal, ii. p. 237. Tennyson hates being
lionized.
1882. Literary World, 3 Feb. Rushing off ... from the splendour and
lionizing of a London season.
1886. Fortnightly Rev., xl. 357. [Liszt] allowed himself ... to be
lionized.