All 6 Uses of
apprentice
in
Middlemarch
- His father, a military man, had made but little provision for three children, and when the boy Tertius asked to have a medical education, it seemed easier to his guardians to grant his request by apprenticing him to a country practitioner than to make any objections on the score of family dignity.†
Chpt 2
- He would take a great deal of pains about apprenticing Tegg the shoemaker's son, and he would watch over Tegg's church-going; he would defend Mrs. Strype the washerwoman against Stubbs's unjust exaction on the score of her drying-ground, and he would himself-scrutinize a calumny against Mrs. Strype.†
Chpt 2
- But boys cannot well be apprenticed ultimately: they should be apprenticed at fifteen.†
Chpt 3
- But boys cannot well be apprenticed ultimately: they should be apprenticed at fifteen.†
Chpt 3
- "I wanted to ask you, Mary—don't you think that Mr. Featherstone—if you were to tell him—tell him, I mean, about apprenticing Alfred—would advance the money?"†
Chpt 3
- And if Rosamond will not mind, I shall take an apprentice.†
Chpt 7 *
Definition:
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(apprentice) one who works for an expert to learn a trade; or (as a verb) performance of that kind of work