pupilage

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We, too, brought science to our calling; rude, perhaps, and not readily defined save by a long, hard pupilage.

From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by Bone, David W. (David William)

A pretty notion the Signorina must form of your enslaved state of pupilage, when she hears you ask that question.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various

Down to the year 1832, the system of common law pleading and practice supplied the student, during the greater period of his pupilage, with little else than the most degrading and unprofitable drudgery.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

Strong-willed or not, he would have to leave things alone during his pupilage.

From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

The lieutenants who owed their rank to it became such after seven or eight years, or at, twenty-three or four; and this meant really passing out of pupilage into manhood.

From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)