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Definition of Prentices
1. prentice [v] - See also: prentice
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prentices
Literary usage of Prentices
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes ; with Additional Notes by Isaac Reed, Robert Dodsley, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1825)
"... but recompence and reward But to return again to you, my brave spirited
prentices, upon whom I have freely bestowed these Four, I wish you all, ..."
2. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes by Robert Dodsley (1780)
"... it fays it was divers times publickly afted by certain London prentices ; and
Sir Henry Wotton l, in a Letter to Sir Edmund Bacon, dated 1612-13, ..."
3. A Short History of Engraving & Etching, for the Use of Collectors and by Arthur Mayger Hind (1908)
"Goldsmith prentices fighting. young Michelangelo was inspired to copy. Combined with
his imaginative power, are a sense of humour and powers of observation ..."
4. A Supplement to Burnet's History of My Own Time: Derived from His Original by Gilbert Burnet (1902)
"[The prentices j the forged declaration.] Begin ' The prentices of London began
to run together in great bodies, and fell upon all the mass-houses, ..."
5. Pennsylvania Archives by Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, George Edward Reed, Pennsylvania State Library, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban (1877)
"PS The pressing of men here for their ships is growne to such a heighth, that
beyond all order and custome, they presse the very prentices & handy-crafts ..."
6. The Parliamentary Debatesby Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament by Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament (1823)
"The hon. member was not, perhaps, aware, that there wert- two descriptions of «p..
prentices. There was one class in the nature of parish apprentices, ..."
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