pupilage

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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

The doctors of Ancient Rome took no regular course of study, nor were any standards specified, but as a rule knowledge was acquired by pupilage to a practising physician, for which a honorarium was paid.

From Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine by Elliott, James Sands

Mirabeau's life was, as we have seen, a pupilage, as it is now to become a mastership, in revolution.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various

A physician, with whom I was intimately acquainted, during the greater part of his medical pupilage, which included the latter part of his tobacco experience, has given the following account of his own case.

From An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Health by Mussey, R. D. (Reuben Dimond)

Richard continued in this state of pupilage in some of the castles belonging to the family from the time that his brother began to reign until he was about fourteen years of age.

From Richard III Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob