a. and sb. Also 7 tutelare. [ad. L. tūtēlār-is, f. tūtēla: see prec. and -AR1.]
A. adj. = TUTELARY a.
1600. E. Blount, Hosp. Incur. Fooles, A iv. I coniure … the Gods Tutelar, that they will vndertake the tuition … of this new Hospitall.
1606. Holland, Sueton., 51. The Tutelare Images of crosse-wayes called Lares Compitales.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies, Surrey (1840), III. 215. He [Hammond] was the tutelar angel, to keep many a poor royalist from famishing.
1777. G. Forster, Voy. round World, I. 3. Reflecting on the tutelar guidance of Divine Providence.
1884. Tennyson, Becket, V. iii. All the tutelar Saints of Canterbury.
B. sb. One who is tutelar; a tutelar deity, angel, or saint. Also transf. and fig.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 1232. Minerva Poliuchos, that is to say, Tutelar and protectresse of the city.
1648. trans. Senault’s Paraphr. Job, 319. That Angel which hath been chosen out of a thousand to be their Tutelar.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., VI. iv. § 13. Were Judgment consulted with, Luke should be Tutelar to Physicians as his proper calling.
a. 1680. Butler, Rem. (1759), I. 238. Dame Fortune some Men’s tutelar Takes charge of them without their Care.
1702. H. Dodwell, Apol., § 22, in S. Parker, Cicero’s De Finibus. Those who had brought themselves under the Dominion of ill Spirits by deserting their good Tutelars.
a. 1849. H. Coleridge, Ess. (1851), II. 87. Ringlets that have been twisted with irons—to be the tutelars of hoops and earrings.
1890. E. Johnson, Rise of Christendom, 361. A religious congregation settled there to honour him as tutelar.
Hence Tutelarship (nonce-wd.), the position or function of a tutelar.
1875. J. Hawthorne, in Contemp. Rev., Nov., 925. I resigned my deputy-tutelarship perforce, and retired.
