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To have the guardianship or care of; to teach; to instruct. Their sons are well tutored by you. Shak.

The office or occupation of a tutor; tutorship; guardianship.

A woman who performs the duties of a tutor; an instructress. E. Moore.

Of or pertaining to a tutor; belonging to, or exercised by, a tutor.

Tutorship. [R.]

To teach; to instruct. I . . . shall tutorize him some day. J. H. Newman.

The office, duty, or care of a tutor; guardianship; tutelage. Hooker.

Tutorage. [Obs.] Holinshed.

To tutor; to instruct. Coleridge.

One who institutes, founds, ordains, or establishes.

To instruct amiss.

One who prostitutes; one who submits himself, of or offers another, to vile purposes. Bp. Hurd.

One who makes restitution. [R].

Enacted by statute; depending on statute for its authority; as, a statutory provision.

An under tutor.

her. Chievres had acquired over the mind of the young monarch the ascendant not only of a tutor, but of a parent. Robertson.

e ill habit . . . of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms. Milton.

Beneficial, as opposed to statutory or civil; as, bonitary dominion of land.

it judge, together with the judge of the district court. They have jurisdiction within statutory limits, both in law and equity, in matters of federal cognizance. Some of the individual States also have circuit courts, which have general statutory jurisdiction of the same class, in matters of State cognizance. -- Circ…

A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race. [Colloq.] Wareham was studying for India with a Wancester coach. G. Eliot.