The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pupilage \Pu"pil*age\, n. The state of being a pupil.
As sons of kings, loving in pupilage,
Have turned to tyrants when they came to power.
--Tennyson.
Usage examples of "pupilage".
The period of pupilage will be busy enough in acquiring the knowledge needed, and the season of active practice will leave little leisure for any but professional studies.
Vienna was now to be his home for ten long years of dreary pupilage and genteel starvation.
A physician, with whom I was intimately acquainted, during the greater part of his medical pupilage, which included the latter part of his tobacco experience, has given the following account of his own case.
I especially inquired into the particulars of these dismissals and resignations, and was assured that the majority of them take place in the first year of the pupilage.
It is no wonder that they made no distinction betwixt minority and full age, nor looked after one-and-twenty, or any other age, that might make them the free disposers of themselves and fortunes, when they could have no desire to be out of their pupilage.
From the pupilage of Garrisonism he rose to the dignity of a teacher and a thinker.
For the father having, by the law of Nature, the same power, with every man else, to punish, as he thought fit, any offences against that law, might thereby punish his transgressing children, even when they were men, and out of their pupilage.