preceptoraten.
/prᵻˈsɛpt(ə)rət/, U.S. /ˈpriˌsɛpt(ə)rət/ The office of preceptor or instructor.
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1896 Daily News 26 Dec. 2/2 A Society for higher female education, called the Institute of Ladies of the Christian Preceptorate, by the Vicomtesse d'Adhemar.
1960 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 19 348/1 Titles are translated, with results which few readers will find very enlightening, such as ‘Great Subject of the Grand Preceptorate’.
1992 T. Dipiero Dangerous Truths vi. 242 In 1699, when Fénelon's work was first published, the implicit critiques of the government of Louis XIV..cost him his preceptorate of the duc de Bourgogne.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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