[f. as prec. + -SHIP.]
† 1. The office of guardian or protector; guardianship. Obs.
1559. Aylmer, Harborowe, L j. In the ciuill lawe, the tutorshippe endith in the males at .14. yeares of age.
1579. J. Stubbes, Gaping Gulf, D j. Putting it in the hands of the father, who vnder colour of some tutorship to hys daughter, will haue her into Fraunce.
1586. Acts Privy Counc. (N.S.), 66. Douglas … desireth to haue the tutorshippe and keeping of the idiot with the goodes, leases [etc.].
1629. Wadsworth, Pilgr., vi. 52. My Father continued in his tutorship of the Infant vntill he … dyed.
1665. Sir T. Herbert, Trav. (1677), 75. Anno 1610…. The Prince (under tutorship of Mortesachan) was sent Viceroy to Guzurat.
2. The position or office of an instructor or teacher.
1581. Mulcaster, Positions, xxxvii. (1887), 155. So long as the child shalbe either vnder maistership in schole, or tutorship in colledge.
1796. Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, I. 105. An entire discontinuance of all pupilage and tutorship.
1841. W. Spalding, Italy & It. Isl., I. 140. Seneca, whose tutorship of Nero, and his murder by that wicked prince, are familiar to every one.
1856. Miss Yonge, Daisy Chain, xxi. Norman … had undertaken the tutorship of two school-boys for the holidays.
1893. W. G. Collingwood, Ruskin iii. 34. He was now growing out of his mother’s tutorship.
