tutory
(ˈtjuːtərɪ)
Also 5 tutry, 6 tutoury.
[f. tutor: see -ory1. The form tutry is ad. OF. tutrie, tuterie, from tuteur.]
1. Guardianship, charge, protection; spec. the custody of a ward. Obs. exc. in Law.
tutory-at-law, tutory dative, etc.: cf. tutor-at-law, etc. (tutor n. 2 b).
| c 1400 Sc. Trojan War ii. 1624 Þir two sonnes, quhen þai war ȝing, War gevin in tutory and keping To king Teuteus. 1456 Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 264 Gif a man war our ȝong, within elde of tutry. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. viii. (S.T.S.) II. 65 Alexander Ogiluie,..in quhais tutorie was Johne Ogiluie, his oy. 1614 in Ramsay Bamff Charters (1915) 175 To exerce the said office of tutorie to the weill of the saidis bairnis. 1643 Ibid. 262 Borrowing of money..be the tutour befoir the expyreing of his tutorie. 1754 Tutory dative [see dative a. 4 c]. a 1768 Erskine Inst. Law Scot. i. vii. §1 Tutory..is a power and faculty to govern the person, and to manage the estate, of a pupil. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 1018 The tutory may..expire by the tutor's renunciation made on reasonable cause. 1880 Muirhead Ulpian xi. §9 A tutory-at-law is lost by capitis deminutio. |
| attrib. a 1768 Erskine Inst. Law Scot. i. vii. §32 (1773) 131 All purchases made by the tutor,..till settling the tutory-accounts. |
† 2. Tuition, instruction.
Obs. rare.
| 1692 A. Pitcairn Assembly v. i. (1766) 62 The Tutory of Mr. Salathiel, who is as profess'd an Enemy to poor Priscian..as he is to King James. 1764 Reid Inquiry vi. §24 Reason and reflection must superadd their tutory in order to produce a Rousseau, a Bacon, or a Newton. |