单词 | pupillarity |
释义 | pupillarityn. 1. Civil Law and Scots Law. The state of being below the legal age of puberty; the period during which a person remains in this state. Cf. pupil n.1 1. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ 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 1561 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) I. ii. 415 The said James, beand bayth minor and approacheand mair to pupillaritie nor maioritie.., aucht not to vnderly the law for the lybellit pretendit cryme. 1583–4 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 641 His tutour..during the yeiris of his pupillaritie. 1609 J. Skene tr. Stat. Robert I in Regiam Majestatem 29 Be reason the heire is within age (within the yeares of pupillaritie). 1634 in M. P. Brown Suppl. Dict. Decisions Court of Session (1826) I. 88 The bairn was yet within 14 years of age, and so within the years of pupillarity, so that his tutory..yet continued. 1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. iii. vii. 19 And though the children survive their pupillarity [etc.]. 1722 W. Forbes Inst. Law Scotl. I. i. 22 After the Years of Pupillarity are run out those who were formerly under the Conduct of Tutors, change Name of Pupils for that of Minors. 1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. I. i. vii. 77 The stages of life principally distinguished in law are, pupillarity, puberty, or minority, and majority. A child is under pupillarity from the birth till 14 years of age if a male, and till 12 if a female. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 125 Very true, gudewife,..we are in loco parentis to him during his years of pupillarity. 1869 Act 32 & 33 Victoria c. 116 §7 (Scotland) Demand..intimated to the Grantor, whether of full age or in pupillarity or minority. 1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes i. 74 A minor who has passed the years of pupillarity shall have the assistance of a curator. 1913 Times 13 Nov. 4/3 Somerville, the bankrupt, at least when he emerged from pupilarity in 1885, had an English domicile derived from the domicile of choice of his father. 1960 Internat. & Compar. Law Q. 9 16 A child is either a pupil, that is in pupillarity until twelve if a girl and fourteen if a boy, or a minor. 1990 Sc. Civil Law Rep. (Lexis) 278 5 Jan. The drafts had been framed to give the trustees the same powers which..the widow would possess, both as tutrix while the children were in pupillarity and as curatrix during their minority. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [noun] > childhood childhoodOE childheadc1330 bairnheid1393 enfauncec1400 puerice1481 puerility1512 childage1548 childishness1597 leading-string1677 impuberty1785 cap and feather days1822 bairnhooda1835 child-life1841 pupillarity1846 tunic-hood1859 bread-and-butterhood1869 preadolescence1907 latency1910 puerilism1925 1846 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 59 666 The deep-seated mischief of..mispronunciation in a Cockney whose years of pupilarity have been passed on the spot of his birth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1561 |
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