† ˈprenticehood Obs.
[f. as prec. + -hood; cf. apprenticehood.]
= next, 1.
| 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. v. 256, I..haue ymade many a knyȝte bothe mercere & drapere, þat payed neuere for his prentishode nouȝte a peire gloues. c 1386 Chaucer Cook's T. 36 This ioly prentys with his maister bood Til he were ny out of his prentishood. 1467 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 390 Fulle vij. yere of prentishode. 1554 in Bury Wills (Camden) 145 When he commith out of his yeres of prentiswood. 1568 U. Fulwell Like will to Like in Hazl. Dodsley III. 310 So soon as my prenticehood was once come out. 1648 J. Beaumont Psyche ii. xliii, I serv'd no prentisehood to any Rod. |