tutelar, a. and n.
(ˈtjuːtɪlə(r))
Also 7 tutelare.
[ad. L. tūtēlār-is, f. tūtēla: see prec. and -ar1.]
A. adj. = tutelary a.
| 1600 E. Blount Hosp. Incur. Fooles A iv, I coniure..the Gods Tutelar, that they will vndertake the tuition..of this new Hospitall. 1606 Holland Sueton. 51 The Tutelare Images of crosse-wayes called Lares Compitales. a 1661 Fuller Worthies, Surrey (1840) III. 215 He [Hammond] was the tutelar angel, to keep many a poor royalist from famishing. 1777 G. Forster Voy. round World I. 3 Reflecting on the tutelar guidance of Divine Providence. 1884 Tennyson Becket v. iii, All the tutelar Saints of Canterbury. |
B. n. One who is tutelar; a tutelar deity, angel, or saint. Also transf. and fig.
| 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1232 Minerva Poliuchos, that is to say, Tutelar and protectresse of the city. 1648 tr. Senault's Paraphr. Job 319 That Angel which hath been chosen out of a thousand to be their Tutelar. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. vi. iv. §13 Were Judgment consulted with, Luke should be Tutelar to Physicians as his proper calling. a 1680 Butler Rem. (1759) I. 238 Dame Fortune some Men's tutelar Takes charge of them without their Care. 1702 H. Dodwell Apol. §22 in S. Parker Cicero's De Finibus, Those who had brought themselves under the Dominion of ill Spirits by deserting their good Tutelars. a 1849 H. Coleridge Ess. (1851) II. 87 Ringlets that have been twisted with irons—to be the tutelars of hoops and earrings. 1890 E. Johnson Rise of Christendom 361 A religious congregation settled there to honour him as tutelar. |
Hence ˈtutelarship (nonce-wd.), the position or function of a tutelar.
| 1875 J. Hawthorne in Contemp. Rev. Nov. 925, I resigned my deputy-tutelarship perforce, and retired. |