Also 7 tutridge, tutaradge. [f. TUTOR sb. + -AGE.]
1. The office, authority, or action of a tutor or guardian; tutorship, guardianship, custody; tutorial control, direction, or supervision; instruction.
1617. Moryson, Itin., II. 217. By the Law of Saxony, Tutorage belongs onely to the Kinsmen, by the Fathers side.
1657. R. Ligon, Barbadoes, 23. I wanted no tutridge, in the learning this mystery.
1711. Shaftesb., Charac., Misc., IV. i. The Tutorage of Fancy and Pleasure.
1716. Prideaux, Connex. O. & N. Test., I. IV. (1718), 168. Under the discipline and tutorage of that prophet.
1801. Strutt, Sports & Past., I. i. § 2. These qualities … were natural to them, and not the effect of tutorage.
1837. Lockhart, Scott, I. iii. 9. He was placed … under the domestic tutorage of Mr. James French.
b. spec. at a university; also, the charge for or cost of this.
1638. Earl of Cork, Diary, in Lismore Papers, Ser. I. (1886), V. 64. Whose expences … for three yeares, for diett, and tutaradge, and aparell, I paid.
1721. Amherst, Terræ Fil., App. (1726), 322. He has, ever since his admission into Baliol, constantly paid the same tutorage, which other scholars do.
1733. Oxford Act, I. 7. Fifty Pounds with which I should have paid off my old Score, my Battles, my Tutorage, my Taylor [etc.].
1775. A. Burnaby, Trav., 55. The expence to a student for room-rent, commons, and tutorage.
1835. De Quincey, in Tait’s Mag., II. 367. The next item … is that which in college bills is expressed by the word Tutorage.
c. A tutor’s post, a tutorship.
1796. Lamb, Lett. to Coleridge, in Mem., i. Concerning the tutorage, is not the salary low?
1833. Carlyle, Misc. Ess., Diderot (1872), V. 40. He has reconciled Brothers, sought out Tutorages.
† 2. The condition of being under authority or control; = TUTELAGE 2. Obs. rare.
1651. Baxter, Inf. Bapt., 28. He hath redeemed us from our bondage and tutorage.
1751. Johnson, Rambler, No. 147, ¶ 4. Banqueting upon my own perfections, and longing in secret to escape from tutorage.
1768. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), I. 596. Conceited pertness teaches the new-loosened school-boy … thy scorn of tutorage and control.
