[f. TUTOR sb.]
1. trans. To act the part of a tutor towards; to give special or individual instruction to; to teach, instruct (in a subject).
1592. Warner, Alb. Eng., VII. xxxvii. (1612), 186. The last of our three Phaetons was tuter’d of a Fryer.
1621. in Foster, Eng. Factories Ind. (1906), 241. [An accusation of having said] that our hopefull Prince Charles was tutored in the Papist religion.
1740. J. Dupré, Conform. Anc. & Mod. Cerem., 39. An Old Capuchin tutoring a Novice.
1814. Chalmers, Evid. Chr. Revel., x. 292. His mind is not yet tutored to the philosophy of the subject.
1867. Macfarren, Harmony, vi. (1876), 221. Their ear being thus tutored.
1903. Times, Lit. Suppl., 2 Oct., 280/1. He was sent away to be tutored in English rectories, whence he proceeded to University College, London.
absol. 1892. Nation (N. Y.), 11 Aug., 116/2. Graduate … of experience wishes to tutor for the September examinations.
b. With extension: To get (a quality or the like) out or in by instruction or discipline. rare.
1646. J. Hall, Poems, 64. Let not wealth tutor out Our spirits with her gout.
2. To instruct under discipline; to subject to discipline, control, or correction; to school; also to admonish or reprove.
1592. Shaks., Rom. & Jul., III. i. 33. Didst thou not fall out with a taylor for wearing his new doublet before Easter, with another for tying his new shooes with olde riband, and yet thou wilt tuter me from quarelling?
1641. Milton, Ch. Govt., i. Wks. 1851, III. 100. If men were but as good to discipline themselves, as some are to tutor their Horses and Hawks. Ibid. (1645), Tetrach., Wks. 1738, I. 240. The Fanatic boldness of this age, that dares tutor Christ to be more strict than he thought fit.
1667. Dryden & Dk. Newcastle, Sir Martin Mar-all, I. i. Saucy rascal, avoid my sight; must you tutor me?
1711. Shaftesb., Charac., Wit & Hum., I. iii. The World however it may be taught will not be tutor’d.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. I. i. France is roused! Long have ye been lecturing and tutoring this poor Nation.
1850. Maurice, Mor. & Met. Philos. (1854), I. 9. Seneca … had tutored himself to endure personal injuries without indulging in anger.
1882. Stevenson, Fam. Stud. Men & B., Thoreau (1905), 115. Thoreau had plenty of humour till he tutored himself out of it.
3. To instruct (a person) in a course of action, to tell (one) what to do or say; often in sinister sense: to sophisticate or tamper with (a witness or his evidence).
1748. J. Lind, Lett. Navy, ii. (1757), 77. Notwithstanding all the care that had been taken to manage and tutor his evidence.
1767. J. Wingrave, Narr. Cruelties Eliz. Brownrigg, 6. After tutoring the girl … what answer to make, and what behaviour to follow.
1826. C. Butler, Vind. Rom. Cath. Ch., 126. Emissaries were employed, witnesses tutored,… and even torture applied to procure evidence.
1850. Merivale, Rom. Emp. (1865), III. xxiii. 67. The populace, tutored … or bribed for the purpose, offered him the high priesthood.
† 4. To take care or charge of. Obs. rare.
1682. A. Peden, in Life, x. (1902), 209. Our blessed second Adam hath our Stock in guiding and he tutors it better.
Hence Tutored ppl. a., Tutoring vbl. sb.
1589. R. Harvey, Pl. Perc. (1860), 25. A little tutoring in Diuinitie, and the reuersion of a benefice,… where his godfathers commendatorie letters may preuaile.
1601. Weever, Mirr. Mart., F ij b. His Tutor’d pen … would … still repaire the ruin of my name.
1707. in Hearne, Collect., 13 June (O.H.S.), II. 20. They must by the Tutoring of Plato maintain the same Doctrine.
1805. Chron., in Ann. Reg. (1807), XLVII. 475/2. His exhibition consisted of tutored birds. A number of little birds … formed themselves into ranks, like a company of soldiers.
1887. Saintsbury, Hist. Elizab. Lit., viii. (1890), 299. [He] died possessed of landed property … (an unusual result of tutoring).
1889. Bosw. Smith, Life Ld. Lawrence, viii. (1911), 124. The little prince … flung himself back … with a tutored obstinacy which was not to be shaken.
