pupilage
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During his pupilage he secured his first engagement as an actor at a little theatre on the Boulevard du Crime, called the Variétés Amusantes—a theatre long since dead.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 by Various
In spite of the tyrannic cares of their jealous guides, mankind seem desirous to burst from the pupilage, wherein so many causes combine to retain them.
From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Paul Henry Thiry Baron d' Holbach
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 Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh
Most of us were shy to speak out in that presence, feeling ourselves in a state of pupilage.
From Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
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 James Sands Elliott
