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prenticen. Origin: Probably of multiple origins. Probably partly a borrowing from French. Probably partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: French prentiz ; apprentice n. Etymology: Probably partly < Anglo-Norman prentiz learner, apprentice (late 13th cent. or earlier; aphetic < apprentiz apprentice n.), and partly aphetic < apprentice n. Compare post-classical Latin prenticius (15th cent. in a British source in prenticius de jure canonico ; compare sense 1).In early use frequently unchanged in the plural. Attested earlier as a surname (e.g. John Prentiz), although it is uncertain whether this should be taken as reflecting the Anglo-Norman or the Middle English word. Now regional, archaic, or historical. society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > counsellor, barrister, or advocate > apprentice a1325 (2011) xxvii. 87 So ase hit contenez in oure statut, þat non of oure curt ne nime plait to champart, ne þoru art ne þoru engin, countours, ne attornes, ne prentis, ne heie mennes stiwardes, ne bailifs, ne oþere of þe londe ne nimen no champart. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland (Laud 581) (1869) B. xix. 226 Prechoures and prestes and prentyce of lawe. a1464 J. Capgrave (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 217 Glendor..was first a prentise of cort. c1475 (c1399) (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) iii. 350 For selde were þe ser[gi]auntis souȝte for to plete, Or ony prentise of courte preied of his wittis. 1484 in J. S. Davies (1883) 474 There was ayenst us ij sergeauntez and iiij prentez. 1530 J. Palsgrave 258/1 Prentyce in lawe a lerned man: they [French] use no suche order. 2. society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to status > [noun] > apprentice or learner c1390 (a1376) W. Langland (Vernon) (1867) A. v. 116 I Seruede Simme atte noke, And was his pliht prentys his profyt to loke. c1390 G. Chaucer 4365 A prentis whilom dwelled in oure citee, And of a craft of vitaillers was he. 1454 in J. T. Gilbert (1889) I. 280 Irysh jornaymen, Iryshe prentesys. c1475 tr. A. Chartier (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1974) 231 (MED) For yche man will be a maistre of the crafte wherof we haue as yit right fewe of good prentices. a1500 (a1471) G. Ashby Active Policy Prince 28 in (1899) 14 (MED) As I can, I shall now lerne and practise, Not as a master but as a pentise [read prentise]. 1548 f. lxiv Then all the young men resisted the Alderman..and cryed prentyses and clubbes. 1556 in J. G. Nichols (1852) 30 Thys yere was yell May day, that yong men and prentes of London rose in the nyght. 1594 W. Shakespeare ii. iii. 75 Be merry Peter, And feare not thy maister, fight for credit of the Prentises. 1611 (1876) I. 318 That na printeis heireftir salbe admittit burges except his maister compeir with him. 1640 W. Laud Diary 9 May in (1695) 57 A Paper posted upon the Old-Exchange, animating Prentices to Sack my House. 1652 in J. D. Marwick (1881) II. 217 To setle with some honest knyfmaker to be brocht to the towne and to prese his fredome for taking of twa boyes prenteise frie. 1711 R. Steele No. 107. ⁋7 Sir Roger..sent his Coachman's Grandson to Prentice. 1768 J. Cremer Jrnl. 27 Jan. in R. R. Bellamy (1936) 69 I..was well approved of by the foreman and Eldest Prentices, being willing to learne. 1787 P. Freneau 9 A youngster was order'd to hold himself ready, A sly looking lad that was 'prentice to Snip. 1820 J. Clare 26 Sept. (1985) 97 He stard me very hard & asked the prentice if it was not Clare. 1857 J. Ruskin i. 32 Stupid tailors' 'prentices who are always stitching the sleeves in the wrong way upwards. 1886 T. Hardy I. xiii. 156 'Tis said 'a was a poor parish 'prentice. 1901 N. Munro p.iii He will amuse you with his conceits of soldiering ancient and modern, a trade he thinks the more of because Heaven made him so unfit to become prentice to it. 1962 M. C. Bradbrook i. iv. 103 The City of London's fear of tumults is at first directed towards controlling prentices, rather than the criminal element in the audience. 1997 (Nexis) 17 Mar. 48 The costumes are colourful Holbein-era with a rash of cheeky codpieces among the prentices, including girls in drag. society > education > learning > learner > [noun] a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) 12233 (MED) Als printiz [a1400 Gött. prentiz] wend i him haf ouer-cummen, Bot in his resuns am i numen. c1475 Advice to Lovers in J. O. Halliwell (1840) 28 (MED) To shorte my lif and make bonde that was free, Become prentise and newe to go to scole—Why shulde I so than, were I but a fole? c1480 (a1400) St. Paul 248 in W. M. Metcalfe (1896) I. 36 A woman þat..to petir printeis had bene. a1540 (c1460) G. Hay tr. (1974) 1590 Thow servis thank, thow art rycht gude pre [n] tis. 1604 A. Craig Ep. Ded. sig. A2v A blushing and onmanumitted prentice in poesie. society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > novice or beginner 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan i. xvi. 47 He shal not be noo prentiz..in puttyng his oost in fayre ordenance. 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus II. Gal. ii. f. viii Assone as..I became prentice to the spiritual lawe of fayth. a1586 Sir P. Sidney lxx Sonets be not bound prentise to annoy. Compoundsthe world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > inexperienced a1586 Complaint anent Meiris in W. A. Craigie (1919) I. clxxviii. 438 The prentes boyis ar nocht rewairdit. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas ii. i. 377 My Prentize eare doth oft re-verberate. 1633 P. Fletcher Piscatorie Eclogs ii. xi. 9 in When Thelgon here had spent his prentise-yeares. 1666 S. Pepys 3 Sept. (1972) VII. 273 Saying that she was not a prentice girl, to ask leave every time she goes abroad. 1704 in H. Paton (1931) 182 [Unable to] pay off the last moyetie of his prentice fee. 1725 D. Defoe I. v. 56 There's no body to serve, but a prentice-boy or two. 1787 R. Burns (1968) I. 60 Her prentice han' she try'd on man, An' then she made the lasses, O. 1853 C. Dickens i. 1 Fog cruelly pinching the toes and fingers of his shivering little 'prentice boy on deck. 1881 ‘M. Twain’ xxii. 269 His frantic and lubberly 'prentice-work found but a poor market for itself. 1889 J. T. Morse i. 5 This 'prentice lad of seventeen years had already made himself ‘a little obnoxious to the governing party’. 1907 ‘M. Twain’ ii. iii. 127 They seem to me to prove the presence of the 'prentice hand. 1923 W. Archer vii. 185 But Love in a Wood, it may be said, was Wycherley's 'prentice piece, and..was written when he was only nineteen. 1963 7 May 8/7 How fine it would be to hear Sir John Gielgud on a stage where Edmund Kean was a prentice player. 1997 (Nexis) 11 June 32 He turned naturally to another Welshman, the safe pair of hands who made sure the 'prentice lad did not waste his journeyman years with Glamorgan. 2004 (Nexis) 9 Oct. 13 The first [phase]..will be seen, inevitably, as 'prentice work, and the last..as decline. Derivatives 1594 T. Nashe sig. E3v Did neuer vnlouing seruant so prentiselike obey his neuer pleased mistres. 1893 K. L. Bates ii. 50 In this same abrupt, prentice-like measure the Deity continues with assurances of His eternity, omniscience and omnipotence. 1916 C. F. Adams v. 182 Though a somewhat crude and 'prentice-like piece of historical work, the address itself brought me a certain degree of notice as well as credit. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). prenticev.Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: prentice n. Now chiefly archaic and regional. society > occupation and work > working > career > have career [verb (transitive)] > put out as apprentice > bind as apprentice 1598 J. Marston ii. ix. sig. G8 But when to seruile imitatorship Some spruce Athenian pen is prentized, Tis worse then Apish. 1608 J. Day sig. C1 Thou wouldst not prentise thy affections, Nor tie thy fortunes to a strangers loue. 1716 T. Hearne (1901) V. 278 His Father was a Bookseller in Oxford, prenticed to old Hen. Davies. 1754 S. Fielding I. 146 Finding his thorough incapacity for such an education, he took him from school, prenticed him to a carpenter, and the boy now grown up was become a sweet-heart to Betty his fellow-traveller, and his master's maid. 1790 3 283 Robert Garvock, son of Jas. Garvock,..prenticed..to Alexander Ferguson. 1838 17 Aug. 3/2 I worked my way fairly till I was 'prenticed as a midshipman. 1896 A. E. Housman xlvii. 71 'Prenticed to my father's trade. 1899 S. MacManus 210 What thrade will I 'prentice him to? 1919 C. Evans 153 How if I prentice Joseph to a shop draper. Has he any odds? 1984 in C. Kightly vi. 160 My own brother was 'prenticed to a wheelwright, he learnt the trade of wheelwright. 2003 39 549 At last I got prenticed out to Even Whitlaw, the pest killer, who..needed a spry helper. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.a1325v.1598 |
