tutelage
(ˈtjuːtəlɪdʒ)
Also 7 tutillage, 8 tutilage.
[f. L. tūtēla watching, keeping, guardianship (f. tūt-, ppl. stem of tuērī to watch) + -age.]
1. The office or function of a guardian; protection, care, guardianship, patronage; governorship of a ward. Also fig.
| 1605 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. iv. Handie-crafts Ded., To beare againe..The noble Pasport of thy Tutelage, To salue her still from sullen Enuies wound. 1612 Drayton Poly-olb. iii. 217 That Citie..The Tutilage whereof..Some to Minerua gane, and some to Hercules. 1689 Def. Liberty agst. Tyrants 29 A slave, or one that is under tutillage. 1777 Priestley Disc. Philos. Necess. 205 It came forth under my tutilage and kind protection. 1832 tr. Sismondi's Ital. Rep. iii. 60 Reigning under the pope's tutelage over the Two Sicilies only. 1879 Dixon Windsor I. xviii. 187 Under the tutelage of a patron saint. |
b. Instruction, tuition.
| 1857 H. Miller Test. Rocks vi. 221 The dog acquires, under his tutelage, the virtues of fidelity..and affection. 1857 Kingsley Two Y. Ago (1877) 243 Under whose tutelage he had learnt to smoke..assiduously. 1863 Holland Lett. Joneses xvii. 447 Under the tutelage of several different masters. |
2. The condition of being under protection or guardianship.
| 1650 R. Stapylton Strada's Low C. Warres iv. 87 On his Christening day they delivered him in tutelage to the Prince Electour Augustus. 1792 V. Knox Serm. xiv. 309 Pleasure..during the period of tutelage, engaged only a part of her votary's attention. 1878 M. E. Braddon Open Verd. ii, At seventeen, when he was in his state of tutelage. |