单词 | apprentice |
释义 | apprenticen.adj. 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. 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. 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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