guardianship; instruction; state of being under guardianship or instruction
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Tutelage Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
The state of being under a guardian; care or protection enjoyed.
The state of being under a guardian; care or protection enjoyed.
(n.)
The act of guarding or protecting; guardianship; protection; as, the king's right of seigniory and tutelage.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutThe act of guarding or protecting; guardianship; protection; as, the king's right of seigniory and tutelage.
tutelage
\tu"te*lage\ (?), n. [l. tutela protection, fr. tutus safe, fr. tueri to watch, defend. cf. tuition.]
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.
2. the state of being under a guardian; care or protection enjoyed. knox. [
tutelage
n
1. teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately) [syn: tuition, tutorship]
2. attention and management implying responsibility for safety; "he is under the care of a physician" [syn: care, charge, guardianship]
The act of training or the state of being under instruction
Noun
1. teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately)
(synonym) tuition, tutorship
(hypernym) teaching, instruction, pedagogy
(derivation) tutor
2. attention and management implying responsibility for safety; "he is in the care of a bodyguard"
(synonym) care, charge, guardianship
(hypernym) protection
(hyponym) due care, ordinary care, reasonable care
(derivation) tutor
Tutelage Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
A tutor is a person employed in the education of others, either individually or in groups. To tutor (as a verb) is to perform the functions of a tutor.
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Tutelage Definition from Law Dictionaries & Glossaries
TUTELAGE, TUTOR, TUTORSHIP -. State of guardianship; the condition of one who is subject to the control of a guardian.
TUTOR - A person who has been lawfully appointed to the care of the person and property of a minor.
By the laws of Louisiana minors under the age of fourteen years, if males, and under the age of twelve years, if females, are both, as to their persons and their estates, placed under the authority of a tutor. Above that age, and until their, majority or emancipation, they are placed under the authority of a curator.
TUTORSHIP - The power which an individual, sui juris, has to take care of the person of one who is unable to take care of himself. Tutorship differs from curatorship.
This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.
Courtesy of the 'Lectric Law Library.TUTOR - A person who has been lawfully appointed to the care of the person and property of a minor.
By the laws of Louisiana minors under the age of fourteen years, if males, and under the age of twelve years, if females, are both, as to their persons and their estates, placed under the authority of a tutor. Above that age, and until their, majority or emancipation, they are placed under the authority of a curator.
TUTORSHIP - The power which an individual, sui juris, has to take care of the person of one who is unable to take care of himself. Tutorship differs from curatorship.
This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.
