a. rare. [f. as prec. + -LY1; cf. fatherly.] Befitting or pertaining properly to a tutor; like a tutor; dictatorial, pedagogic.
1611. Cotgr., s.v. Bonnet, Prendre le bonnet,… to take on him the gouernment of himselfe; to waiue all tutorly Iurisdiction.
a. 1734. North, Exam., III. vi. § 42 (1740), 453. The Earl … was grown so infirm, peevish and forgetful, as also not a little tutorly, in his Majesty’s Affairs.
1879. G. Meredith, Egoist, I. vi. 88. He was … indulgent, almost frolicsome, in contradistinction to Mr. Whitford’s tutorly sharpness.
