pupilage
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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
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
Now, the tragedy of my first night on the Rio Pongo was my transition from pupilage to responsible independence.
From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Brantz Mayer
Is it that the dignity of genius forbids it, or that pupilage is half a disgrace?
From How to Write a Novel A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction by Anonymous
And woe to the sophist who, with arguments drawn from the unconfirmed constitution of his childhood, would strive to render his imperfect, because immature, state of pupilage a permanent one!
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by John Mackay Wilson
