pupilage

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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 Holbach, Paul Henry Thiry Baron d'

In accounting for it, and finding out the determining experiences of the artist's pupilage, we shall account, also, for much that came after.

From Frederic Lord Leighton An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work by Rhys, Ernest

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)

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

She remembered Clarence Copperhead as a full-grown man, beyond, it seemed to her, the age at which pupilage was possible.

From Phoebe, Junior by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)