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Webster 1913 Edition
Prentice
Pren′tice
,Noun.
[Aphetic form of
apprentice
.] An apprentice.
[Obs. or Colloq.]
Piers Plowman.
“My accuser is my prentice.” Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Prentice
PRENTICE
, a colloquial contraction of apprentice, which see.Definition 2024
Prentice
prentice
prentice
English
Noun
prentice (plural prentices)
- (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.
- 1682, John Lacy, Sir Hercules Buffoon, or The Poetical Squire, Act II, scene iv,
Verb
prentice (third-person singular simple present prentices, present participle prenticing, simple past and past participle prenticed)
- (obsolete) To apprentice.
Synonyms
- (noun, verb): apprentice, 'prentice