Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The first service of a soldier; hence, the first rudiments of any art; a novitiate. The word is used by Cowper as a title for a poem on schools.
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- noun Schooling, apprenticeship; novitiate.
Etymologies
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Examples
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When he had made his first speech in a court of law, he was said _tirocinium ponere_, [295] and if it were a success, he might devote himself more particularly henceforward to the art and practice of oratory.
Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884
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No meal, with Frampton behind his chair, had ever equalled Fitzjocelyn's cookery or attendance; and Louis's reminiscences of the penalties he had suffered from his seniors for burnt toast, awoke like recollections of schoolboy days, hitherto in utter oblivion, and instead of the intended delicate conversation, father and son found themselves laughing over a 'tirocinium or review of schools.'
Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Moreover, these popular traditional plays and games, handed down from one generation to another of children, "show how instinctive are these forms of muscular activity and imitative expression, which have their roots in a true physiological and psychic necessity, being a species of tirocinium for the experience of childhood" (301. 136
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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