prentice

See also: Prentice and 'prentice

English

Etymology

An old (Middle English) apheretic form of apprentice.

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prentice (plural prentices)

  1. (obsolete) An apprentice.
    • 1682, John Lacy, Sir Hercules Buffoon, or The Poetical Squire, act II, scene iv:
      Faith, bind him prentice to a lord; by the same rule he'll be a lord when he's out of his time.

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prentice (third-person singular simple present prentices, present participle prenticing, simple past and past participle prenticed)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To apprentice.

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