Definitions for pupilage

pupilage pu·pil·age

Spelling: [pyoo-puh-lij]
IPA: /ˈpyu pə lɪdʒ/

Pupilage is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 190 anagrams from letters in pupilage (aegilppu).

Definitions for pupilage

noun

  1. the state or period of being a pupil; tutelage.

Origin of pupilage

First recorded in 1580-90; pupil1 + -age

Examples for pupilage

A pretty notion the Signorina must form of your enslaved state of pupilage, when she hears you ask that question.

He that has made even a little progress beyond ignorance and pupilage cannot be edified with anything but truth.

The samavartana, or completion of the pupilage ceremony, takes place on the fourth day.

Is it that the dignity of genius forbids it, or that pupilage is half a disgrace?

The period of pupilage is a fortnight spent on a dietary of milk and fruits with no cooked meat, in a cloister in meditation.

To this pass had come the see-saw of middle class (popolo) and upper class, with a populace held in pupilage.

The above and similar works should be the daily companions of the young student for the first few years of his pupilage.

While his state of pupilage lasted he lived on alms and was bound by the severest vows of obedience and chastity.

He repudiated the notion that they needed any pupilage from the general Government in the management of public affairs.

The child had outlived the years of pupilage; the interests of the old and the young required a separate household.

Word Value for pupilage
Scrable

13

Words with friends

18

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