Definition of "pupilage" []

• The state or period of being a pupil. (noun)

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• "Before, she had been his companion and his pupil; since then, she had been his companion even more frequently, but the idea of pupilage seemed to have been absorbed in the self-abnegation of parental hope and pride."
• "This kind of pupilage was called the _tirocinium fori_, in which a lad should be pursuing his studies for the legal profession, and also his bodily exercises in the Campus Martius, so that he might be ready to serve in the army for the single campaign which was still desirable if not absolutely necessary."
• "'pupilage' misses the whole point and comes near making nonsense of the passage. cf."