pupilage

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Strong-willed or not, he would have to leave things alone during his pupilage.

From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

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

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)

Richard continued in this state of pupilage in some of the castles belonging to the family from the time that his brother began to reign until he was about fourteen years of age.

From Richard III Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob

We, too, brought science to our calling; rude, perhaps, and not readily defined save by a long, hard pupilage.

From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by Bone, David W. (David William)