The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apprentice \Ap*pren"tice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Apprenticed; p. pr. & vb. n. Apprenticing.] To bind to, or put under the care of, a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: apprentice)
WordNet
adj. bound by contract [syn: articled, bound, indentured]
Usage examples of "apprenticed".
Though the son of a wealthy family, Granacci had been apprenticed to Filippino Lippi at the age of ten, at thirteen had posed as the central figure of the resurrected youth in St.
Nephew, in the Carmine, which Masaccio had left uncompleted, and was now apprenticed to Ghirlandaio.
It was the thirteen-year-old Cieco, who had been apprenticed to Ghirlandaio at the conventional age of ten, who had taken offense.
He assigned Michelangelo a drawing desk on the portico between seventeen-year-old Torrigiani and twenty-nine-year old Andrea Sansovino, who had been apprenticed to Antonio Pollaiuolo and whose commissioned work was to be seen in Santo Spirito.
Antonio Sangallo brought his twenty-four-year-old nephew, who was apprenticed to Perugino.
Here half a dozen young architects who had apprenticed themselves to Sangallo were working on plans for broadening the piazzas, building bridges over the Tiber, constructing new academies, hospitals, churches: the plans originally conceived by Sixtus IV, who had built the Sistine Chapel, neglected by Alexander VI, now revived and expanded by Julius, nephew of Sixtus.
Benvenuto Cellini, the young sculptor who had refused to be apprenticed to Torrigiani.
I think you would be happier apprenticed to the Strozzi for the wool trade.
Turveydrop was in bed, I found, and Caddy was milling his chocolate, which a melancholy little boy who was an apprentice --it seemed such a curious thing to be apprenticed to the trade of dancing--was waiting to carry upstairs.
He is apprenticed to the miller, whatever it was, and is a good bashful fellow, always falling in love with somebody and being ashamed of it.
Your own father was apprenticed to any number of different masters in his youth.
For Ness to be apprenticed as an adult had almost been a miracle from Koru.
Rilla away, and the only way to help would be to get her apprenticed to someone other than Marte.
Mateus, able crew apprenticed to Kat, had just picked up the leather cup.
Then I was apprenticed to an old watchmaker, a friend of my father, who taught me the trade which has served me ever since.