单词 | pupil age |
释义 | pupil agen. In early use: the period during which one is a pupil, minority. In later use: the age or age range at which one is a pupil; school age. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [noun] > childhood > minority nonage1400 less agec1436 minority1493 pupillarity1561 nonwit1571 pupilship1581 pupillage1590 pupil age1598 under-age1613 underagedness1648 infancy1658 leading-string1677 minorship1841 minorage1888 society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > counsellor, barrister, or advocate > apprentice > position of pupil age1598 pupillage1852 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 95 Since the oulde dayes of good man Adam, to the pupill age of this present twelue a clocke at midnight. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. ii. 98 His Pupill age Man-entred thus, he waxed like a Sea. View more context for this quotation 1632 P. Massinger Emperour of East ii. i. sig. D2v Your pupill age is pass'd, and manly actions Are now expected from you. 1712 D. Defoe Reasons against Fighting 20 Will they still suppose us in our Non-age and Pupil-age, that we must be led about Blindfold, and be made Tools and Engines to the Dutch Avarice and Imperial Ambition? 1817 W. Godwin Mandeville II. 92 You were..prepared at the pupil age of seventeen to play the part of a fox. 1879 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily Sentinel 23 Apr. The superintendent of education reports that not less than 1,000 children of pupil age died in Memphis of yellow fever. 1901 C. T. Copeland Edwin Booth 41 J. B. Booth, in spite of his brother's triumphs, thought him still of a pupil age, and reduced him three times from star parts to utility. 1994 Press Assoc. (Nexis) 8 Sept. Posters of a boy who disappeared on a Greek island in 1991 are being circulated in primary schools in the country as he comes of pupil age. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1598 |
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