a. nonce-wd. [f. L. tīrōn-, stem of tīro, TIRO + -IC.] Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a tiro; betraying inexperience; amateurish. So (nonce-wds.) Ti-, tyronism, inexperience; Ti-, tyronist = TIRO; Ti-, tyronize v., intr. to play the tiro, to be a beginner; hence Ti-, tyronizing ppl. a.
a. 1660. Contemp. Hist. Irel. (Ir. Archæol. Soc.), I. 29. As ignorant of martiall discipline, as the most tyronizinge of them all.
1716. M. Davies, Athen. Brit., III. 3. They … are fitter for Veterans and Criticks in Closets and Libraries, than for Tyronists and Trivialists in Schools.
1832. Examiner, 660/1. The critic,… though modest and professing tyronism, is a good moderator.
1909. Daily Chron., 23 June, 3/1. His handling of form and plot is occasionally tyronic, if one may be permitted a word that ought to exist.
