pupilage

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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

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 Mackinlay, M. (Malcolm) Sterling

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

Then you have only another year of pupilage to serve, eh, Escombe?”

From Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru by Prout, Victor

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'