pupilage

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A physician, with whom I was intimately acquainted, during the greater part of his medical pupilage, which included the latter part of his tobacco experience, has given the following account of his own case.

From An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Health by Mussey, R. D. (Reuben Dimond)

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

Mirabeau's life was, as we have seen, a pupilage, as it is now to become a mastership, in revolution.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various

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

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 Warburton, George