pupillagen.
/ˈpjuːpᵻlɪdʒ/, /ˈpjuːpl̩ɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈpjupəlɪdʒ/ 1. Now usually in form pupilage.
a. Civil Law. †The condition of being a minor or ward; the period of minority or wardship (obsolete). Also (Scots Law): the condition of being below the legal age of puberty (now rare or historical). Cf. pupil n.1 1.
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the world > people > person > child > [noun] > childhood > minority
nonage1400
less agec1436
minority1493
pupillarity1561
nonwit1571
pupilship1581
pupillage1590
pupil age1598
under-age1613
underagedness1648
infancy1658
leading-string1677
minorship1841
minorage1888
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. x. sig. Y5 By meanes whereof, their vncle Vortigere Vsurpt the crowne, during their pupillage.
1633 C. Aleyn Battailes Crescey & Poictiers (ed. 2) 1 His yeeres lay claime to his inheritance; He hath tooke forth out of his pupilage.
1690 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. ii. viii. §105 The Father..might thereby punish his transgressing Children even when they were Men, and out of their Pupilage.
1717 Reasons against Standing Army 43 They will tell them, how mean it is to be aw'd by a few Country Gentlemen, when all the Kings of Europe besides are got out of Pupilage.
1783 E. Burke 9th Rep. Select Comm. Justice in Bengal, Bahar & Orissa in Parl. Papers VI. 43 It is intended to keep him in a state of perpetual pupilage.
1826 H. F. Lyte Tales in Verse v. 127 Till came at last the proud eventful age That burst the tedious bonds of pupillage.
1877 E. R. Conder Basis of Faith iii. 103 This protracted pupilage is needed by his moral nature.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 372/2 Pupilage lasts until the attainment of puberty, which the law fixes at fourteen in males and twelve in females; minority lasts from these ages respectively until twenty-one.
b. In extended use.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun] > newness, freshness, or originality > early stage of existence or the world
prime timea1556
boyhood?1577
youth1604
pupillage1606
youthhood1828
foretime1853
earlies1927
1606 S. Daniel Queenes Arcadia iii. i. sig. E3v They liue as if still in the golden age, When as the world was in his pupillage.
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. xiv Moses Law, by which we were kept in pupillage and minority.
1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) III. 269 Thus the colonies are kept in a state of perpetual pupillage.
1873 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2) vii. 308 The period when our language was in a state of pupillage.
1911 Times 3 May 8/1 If the Liberal Party were to remain in a state of pupilage..the Sovereign would have to select his advisers from a single party in the State.
1993 Jrnl. Mil. Hist. 57 124 People were taught to serve the nation... It was only to be expected that while they were still in a state of pupilage many people remained unconvinced or doubtful.
2.
a. The condition or position of being a pupil, student, or scholar; pupilship.
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society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > pupil > condition of
pedantism1603
pupillage1651
pupildom1845
pupilhood1854
pupilship1879
1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs Ep. Ded. sig. b3v That so our Youth may not be train'd up, or instructed, nor receive in their Pupillage the seeds of Errour.
a1658 J. Cleveland Clievelandi Vindiciæ (1677) 61 Come all the Brats of this Expounding Age To whom the Spirit is in Pupilage.
1710 J. Swift Examiner No. 14 in F. H. Ellis Swift vs. Mainwaring (1985) 9 It was the most prudent Course imaginable in the Queen..extricating Her self..out of the Pupilage of those who found their Accounts only in perpetuating the War.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 87. ⁋10 To raise themselves from pupillage by disputing the propositions of their teacher.
1798 T. Jones Memoirs (1951) 9 He introduced me to Mr Richard Wilson then residing in Covent Garden And we soon Agreed upon Terms of Pupillage.
1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. p. ii At the period of the Duke's pupillage at Westminster school, there were annual town-and-gown conflicts between the scholars and the boys of Tothill Fields.
1882 Carpenter in 19th Cent. Apr. 543 In the days of my medical pupillage the brewers' draymen were the terror of every hospital surgeon in London.
1905 Washington Post 19 Mar. 7/2 A total of thirty weeks in a country log schoolhouse..that was the extent of his pupilage under a master, but he acquired a sterling education without a master.
1976 Daily Times (Lagos) 8 Oct. 10/1 (advt.) Candidates must have served a recognised apprenticeship or pupilage, with considerable years of experience on oil-fired boilers.
2000 Times 10 July 19/6 After graduating he did a three-year pupillage at W. H. Allen of Bedford, going in 1938 to ICI.
b. Law. A (now compulsory) period of apprenticeship with a member of the Bar, intended to give experience of the actual practice of the law and which, upon completion, qualifies a barrister to practise independently. Cf. pupil n.1 2b.
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society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > counsellor, barrister, or advocate > apprentice > position of
pupil age1598
pupillage1852
1852 E. W. Cox Advocate I. xx. 207 The very purpose of the pupilage in Chambers is to witness the practice of the law which the Student has learned or is learning from his books.
1912 J. J. G. Slater Should I Go to Bar? iii. i. 47 During pupilage [it is] customary to attend the various courts to see the work begun in chambers carried to a conclusion.
1978 R. Hazell Bar on Trial iv. 83 In 1959 the Inns made pupillage compulsory, by amending the Call declaration to include an undertaking not to practise at the English Bar without doing twelve months' pupillage.
2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 May 28/1 Such pleasantries and prohibitions survive in the Inns of Court, if we believe Harry Mount's wryly comical account of his pupillage as a trainee barrister.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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