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/əprˈɛntəs/ /əprˈɛntɪs/ Listen

noun

Apprentice n.

One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.

One not well versed in a subject; a tyro.

(Old law) A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant. (Obs.)

verb

Apprentice v. t. (past & past part. apprenticed; pres. part. apprenticing) To bind to, or put under the care of, a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.

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... writer, s. of an assistant master in a public school, was b. at Ealing. From childhood he was an insatiable reader. In his 13th year he became a medical apprentice, and in 1842 entered Charing Cross Hospital. Thereafter he was for a few months surgeon on board the Victory at Haslar, and was then appointed surgeon on H.M.S. Rattlesnake, which was sent to make surveys at Torres Strait. While ...

— A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature • John W. Cousin

... is All-knowing of hidden things and All-wise!) that in the days of a King called Dahmar[FN151] there was a barber who had in his booth a boy for apprentice and one day of the days there came in a Darwaysh man who took seat and turning to the lad saw that he was a model of beauty and loveliness and stature and symmetric grace. So he asked him for a mirror and when it was brought he took it and considered his face therein and combed ...

— Supplemental Nights, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton

... New York and New England by which he raised funds enough to buy his family's freedom. At the conclusion of the narrative of their lives Peter and his wife were domestics in a New Jersey boardinghouse, one of their two sons was a blacksmith's apprentice in a neighboring town, the other had employment in a Pennsylvania village, and the daughter was at school ...

— American Negro Slavery - A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime • Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

... with the adoption of the factory system in modern industry. The introduction of light machinery into the textile mills of England made it possible to employ children at low wages, and it was profitable for the keepers of almshouses to apprentice pauper children to the manufacturers. Some of them were not more than five or six years old, but were kept in bondage more than twelve hours a day. Children were compelled to hard labor in the coal-mines, and ...

— Society - Its Origin and Development • Henry Kalloch Rowe

... financial management remind one of our poet's father. Theodor was irregular in his attendance at school and showed more interest in the newspapers and magazines than in his studies. At the age of sixteen he became the apprentice of a Berlin apothecary with the expectation of eventually succeeding his father in business. After serving his apprenticeship he was employed as assistant dispenser by apothecaries in Berlin, Burg, Leipzig, and Dresden. When he reached the age ...

— The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 • Various

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