pupilage
Example Sentences
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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
After four years' pupilage, I was not surprised to learn that he had already been to hear the new instrumentalist.
From Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science by M. (Malcolm) Sterling Mackinlay
His pupilage with Sir Joshua prevented his falling into the washed leather and warm drab errors of tone that then distinguished the English school of historical painting.
From Art in England Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook
The child had outlived the years of pupilage; the interests of the old and the young required a separate household.
From The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Warburton
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
