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prenticeship Now arch. or dial.|ˈprɛntɪsʃɪp|
Forms: see prentice; also contr. 6 prentyship, prent'ship, Sc. prentischip, 6–7 (9 dial.), prentiship.
[f. as prec. + -ship.]
1. = apprenticeship 1, 2.
1535Lyndesay Satyre 3884 He man gang till his prentischip againe. 1581Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. (1887) 154 To abide the paines of some more laborious prenticeship. 1599Bp. Hall Sat. vi. i. 86 Of late did many a learned man Serue thirtie yeares Prenti-ship with Priscian. a1659Osborn Misc. 81 Of too noble a nature to be learned under a Prentiship. 1737Pope Hor. Epist. ii. i. 181 He serv'd a 'Prenticeship, who sets up shop. 1822T. Mitchell Aristoph. II. 273 In perils and alarms Was his prenticeship of arms.
2. = apprenticeship 3, 4; transf. a space of seven years.
1553R. Ascham in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 16, I have allready served out three prentyships at Cambrige. 1632Massinger Maid of Hon. iii. i, I served two prenticeships, just fourteen years, Trailing the puissant pike. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. vii. v. (1852) 545 Men [who] had spent whole prenticeships of years in the faithful service of the churches. a1845Hood Sniffing a Birthday i, Three 'prenticeships have past away,..Since I was bound to life! |