pupilage

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The lieutenants who owed their rank to it became such after seven or eight years, or at, twenty-three or four; and this meant really passing out of pupilage into manhood.

From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)

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

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

During my pupilage, I had read hard, and devoted every energy to the mastery of a difficult profession, and ever since that period I had pursued a rigid course of study.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 446 Volume 18, New Series, July 17, 1852 by Chambers, William

The transition of the son from the pupilage of childhood and youth to the independence of manhood is often trying to the filial relation.

From Hooking Watermelons 1898 by Bellamy, Edward