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单词 apprentice
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apprenticen.adj.

/əˈprɛntɪs/
Forms: Middle English aprentys, apprentys, 1500s apprentise, Middle English– apprentice.
Etymology: < Old French aprentis, nominative of aprentif , < aprendre to learn (see apprehend v.), 3rd singular aprent , by form-association with words in -tis , -tif < Latin -tīvus , -tīvum : see -ive suffix. (Modern French takes apprentis as plural with singular apprenti .) Compare appentice n. The aphetic prentice n. appears in English as early as the full word, and was for several centuries the more usual form.
A. n.
1. A learner of a craft; one who is bound by legal agreement to serve an employer in the exercise of some handicraft, art, trade, or profession, for a certain number of years, with a view to learn its details and duties, in which the employer is reciprocally bound to instruct him.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > apprentice
apprentice1362
servitor1486
craftschild1561
flat cap1599
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to status > [noun] > apprentice or learner
apprentice1362
prenticec1390
craftschild1561
improver1845
trainee1927
YOP1978
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. ii. 190 Apparayleden him as a prentis.
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. iii. 218 Alle kunne craftes men · craueþ Meede for heore prentys [1393 for here aprentys].
1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Gvv To make seruauntes, and apprentises fre.
1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 5 in Justice Vindicated His duller child he binds an apprentice to some trade.
1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters iii. 299 A fact known to the apprentices of apothecaries.
1863 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Greece & Greeks I. i. 11 Poor boys, of good families, will often take service as apprentices.
2. A barrister-at-law of less than 16 years' standing. Obsolete exc. Historical.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > counsellor, barrister, or advocate > apprentice
prenticea1325
apprenticec1375
pupil1832
pupil barrister1968
c1375 J. Wyclif Wks. (1869) I. 382 Boþe aprentis and avocatis.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xix. 226 Prechoures & prestes & prentyces of lawe.
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 303 a In ancient time the Serieants and Apprentices of Law did draw their owne pleadings.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 23 Barristers (first stiled apprentices)..who answered to our bachelors.
1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. ii. iii. 373 In the time of Edward IV apprentices were a class distinct from the serjeants.
3. By extension: One who is only learning the rudiments; an unskilled novice, a tyro.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > novice or beginner
younglingOE
new-comeOE
novice1340
ginner?c1400
beginner1470
apprentice1489
prentice1489
infant1526
freshmana1557
intrant1560
enterer1565
puny?1570
weakling1575
new comeling1587
novist1587
incipient1589
puisne1592
abecedary1596
neophyte1600
abecedarian1603
bachelor1604
novelist?1608
alphabetary1611
breeching boy1611
tiro1611
alphabetarian1614
principiant1619
unexperienced1622
velvet head1631
undergraduatea1659
young stager1664
greenhorn1672
battledore boy1693
youngster1706
tironist1716
novitiatea1734
recruit1749
griffin1793
initiate1811
Johnny Newcome1815
Johnny Raw1823
griff1829
plebe1833
Johnny-come-lately1839
new chum1851
blanc-bec1853
fledgling1856
rookie1868
elementarian1876
tenderfoot1881
shorthorn1888
new kid1894
cheechako1897
ring-neck1898
Johnny1901
rook1902
fresh meat1908
malihini1914
initiand1915
stooge1930
intakea1943
cub1966
1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes i. xvi. 47 Noo prentiz..in puttyng his oost in fayre ordenance.
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iv. xxvii. 216 As yet they were Apprentises to piracie.
1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xv. 377 A mere apprentice in treason.
B. adj.
or attributive. [in quot. c1400, < Old French aprentis adjective ‘ignorant, qui a besoin d'apprendre,’ Godefroy; in later quots., attributive use of the English noun; compare a master builder, a master mind.]
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to status > [adjective] > apprenticed
apprenticec1400
apprenticed1639
articled1757
c1400 Rom. Rose 687 These briddis, that nought unkunnyng Were of her craft, & apprentys [v.r. a prentise].
1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 326 Her prentice han' she try'd on man, An' then she made the lasses, O.
1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) II. xvi. 105 He tried his apprentice hand on an inferior institution.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

apprenticev.

/əˈprɛntɪs/
Forms: Also in 1600s -ize.
Etymology: < apprentice n.
To bind as an apprentice; to indenture.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > working > career > have career [verb (transitive)] > put out as apprentice > bind as apprentice
bindc1500
prentice1598
apprentice1631
1631 T. Powell Tom of All Trades 144 To be apprentized betimes.
1769 E. Burke Observ. Late State Nation 49 When they are apprenticed, this provision will cease.
1882 W. Blades Life & Typogr. W. Caxton 5 In 1438 Caxton was apprenticed to Robert Large.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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