pupilage

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Dino is in a state of pupilage," he said, slightly, finding that Brian seemed to expect an answer; "the rules which bind him are very strict.

From Under False Pretences A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline

An unpretentious tenement near Sloane Square was Byron's home during his pupilage with Dr. Glennie.

From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)

Mr. Boutwell's proposition to remand a State to territorial pupilage would be but the legal enactment and the logical sequence of what has had the enthusiastic approval of a large number of citizens.

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various

When military aviation had outgrown its early pupilage to the Royal Engineers it came under the immediate control of the War Office.

From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir

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