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tuition|tjuːˈɪʃən|
Forms: 5–6 tuicion, tuission, etc. (with y for either i, and -one, -oun(e, for -on), 6 tuytion, -tyon, tuityon, 6–7 -tione, 5– tuition.
[a. AF. tuycioun, obs. F. tuition (Cotgr., 1611), OF. tuicion, -ssion, -tion (1335 in Godef.), ad. L. tuitio guard, guardianship, n. of action from L. tuērī to look to, look after.]
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a. The action of looking after or taking care of, or condition of being taken care of; safe-keeping, protection, defence, custody, care, tutelage. Obs.
[1292Britton i. xvii. §2 Et si il reconusent felonie..et prient tuycioun del eglise [transl. and beg the protection of the church]. ]1436Libel Eng. Policy in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 204 There glorified in reste wyth his tuicione, The deité to see wyth fulle fruicione. 1462Edw. IV in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. I. 129 For the tuicion and defence of this owr Realme. 1557Order of Hospitalls F vij, Which [copy] he shall haue vnder the Auditors hands, in his own tuition. c1575J. Hooker Life Sir P. Carew (1857) 276, I commit your Lordeship to the tuission of the Almightie. 1611H. Broughton Require Agreem. 53 A jest..that Diana..was so busie about Alexanders birth, that she forgot the tuition of her owne Temple. 1693Stair Inst. Law Scot. (ed. 2) i. vi. §1 There is a Duty of Tuition, and Protection of Orphans. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 352 Liberty without wisdom, and without virtue..is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
b. spec. The position of a guardian or tutor in relation to a ward; guardianship. Obs.
1494Fabyan Chron. v. ci. 75 Clodomyrus was slayne, leuyng...iii. sonnes..whiche .iii. sonnes Clotilde toke to her tuyssion & guydynge. 1568Hist. Jacob & Esau i. ii. A iv, They were brought vp bothe vnder one tuition. 1643Prynne Sov. Power Parl. App. 21 They chose Eudo,..to be King..till Charles should come to his lawfull age, whom they put under Eudo his tuition. 1690Locke Govt. ii. vi. §67 That [power] which the Father hath, in the Right of Tuition, during Minority.
c. concr. A defence, fortification. Obs. rare—1.
1513Life Hen. V (1911) 109 This Towne was fortified wth innumerable tuytions and defences.
2. a. The action or business of teaching a pupil or pupils; the function of a tutor or instructor (see tutor); teaching, instruction.
1582in Campion's Wks. (1909) Introd. 26 Allowance for Thomas Sisley and Thomas Campion at Cambridge beginning at cristmas 1582. First, eche of them for thir diete weakely ijs. vjd.: in the whole yere..xiij. li. Item, thir tuition yerely xlv.s. for eche. 1619Sir R. Boyle Diary in Lismore Papers (1886) I. 235, vli that he gave the ffrenchman and his wyffe for their first quarters tuicon of my children. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xix. II. 129 They pursued their studies..under the tuition of the most skilful masters. 1807Southey H. K. White 3 One of the ushers, when he came to receive the money due for tuition. 1845E. Holmes Mozart 7 Obliged to devote every hour that he could spare..to tuition on the violin and clavier.
b. attrib., as tuition-fee, tuition-money.
1867A. J. Wilson Vashti viii, In future I shall not advance one cent of my tuition-money.
c. = tuition-fee. U.S.
1828Webster, s.v., In our colleges, the tuition is from thirty to forty dollars a year. 1940W. Faulkner Hamlet ii. i. 101 Your tuition will be paid. 1979Arizona Daily Sun 19 Apr. 1/6 Wettaw..was given the award for his opposition to increases in university tuitions.
Hence tuˈitional a., pertaining or relating to tuition; of a school, supported by tuition-fees; tuˈitionary a., pertaining to tuition.
1847Bushnell Chr. Nurt. ii. i. (1861) 229 *Tuitional and regulative influences that come after. 1892E. F. Williams in Chicago Advance 24 Nov., What are called ‘Daughter Schools’, or the ‘Higher Girls' Schools’ [in Germany],..are for the most part tuitional schools. 1906United Free Ch. Mag. July 6/1 The tuitional side of missionary work.
1816J. B. Gilchrist (title) The orienti-occidental *tuitionary pioneer to literary pursuits [etc.]. 1879M. C. Tyler Hist. Amer. Lit. xiii. II. 93 The clerical profession..to develop the other learned professions—the legal, medical, and tuitionary. |