Word Meanings - PUPILAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state of being a pupil. As sons of kings, loving in pupilage, Have turned to tyrants when they came to power. Tennyson.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PUPILAGE)

• Tutelage
• Protection
• guardianship
• minority
• training
• pupilage

Related words: (words related to PUPILAGE)

• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• TRAIN
  1. That which draws along; especially, persuasion, artifice, or enticement; allurement. "Now to my charms, and to my wily trains." Milton. 2. Hence, something tied to a lure to entice a hawk; also, a trap for an animal; a snare. Halliwell. With
• TRAINING
  The act of one who trains; the act or process of exercising, disciplining, etc.; education. Fan training , the operation of training fruit trees, grapevines, etc., so that the branches shall radiate from the stem like a fan. -- Horizontal training
• TRAINABLE
  Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.
• PROTECTIONIST
  One who favors protection. See Protection, 4.
• TRAINER
  1. One who trains; an instructor; especially, one who trains or prepares men, horses, etc., for exercises requiring physical agility and strength. 2. A militiaman when called out for exercise or discipline. Bartlett.
• TRAIN DISPATCHER
  An official who gives the orders on a railroad as to the running of trains and their right of way.
• TRAINBEARER
  One who holds up a train, as of a robe.
• PROTECTIONISM
  The doctrine or policy of protectionists. See Protection, 4.
• TRAINY
  Belonging to train oil. Gay.
• MINORITY
  1. The state of being a minor, or under age. 2. State of being less or small. Sir T. Browne. 3. The smaller number; -- opposed to Ant: majority; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority.
• TRAIN OIL
  Oil procured from the blubber or fat of whales, by boiling.
• TRAINBAND
  A band or company of an organized military force instituted by James I. and dissolved by Charles II.; -- afterwards applied to the London militia. He felt that, without some better protection than that of the trainbands and Beefeaters, his palace
• TUTELAGE
  1. The act of guarding or protecting; guardianship; protection; as, the king's right of seigniory and tutelage. The childhood of the European nations was passed under the tutelage of the clergy. Macaulay. 2. The state of being under a guardian;
• TRAINEL
  A dragnet. Holland.
• PROTECTION
  A theory, or a policy, of protecting the producers in a country from foreign competition in the home market by the imposition of such discriminating duties on goods of foreign production as will restrict or prevent their importation; -- opposed
• PUPILAGE
  The state of being a pupil. As sons of kings, loving in pupilage, Have turned to tyrants when they came to power. Tennyson.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• UPTRAIN
  To train up; to educate. "Daughters which were well uptrained." Spenser.
• CORRIDOR TRAIN
  A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open.
• STRAINING
  from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• RESTRAINEDLY
  With restraint. Hammond.
• SUPERSTRAIN
  To overstrain. Bacon.
• DETRAIN
  To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train. London Graphic.
• UNSTRAINED
  1. Not strained; not cleared or purified by straining; as, unstrained oil or milk. 2. Not forced; easy; natural; as, a unstrained deduction or inference. Hakewill.
• QUENOUILLE TRAINING
  A method of training trees or shrubs in the shape of a cone or distaff by tying down the branches and pruning.
• EXPRESS TRAIN
  Formerly, a railroad train run expressly for the occasion; a special train; now, a train run at express or special speed and making few stops.
• CONTRAINDICATE
  To indicate, as by a symptom, some method of treatment contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would seem to require. Contraindicating symptoms must be observed. Harvey.
• CONSTRAINED
  Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.