Citations:tutelary

English citations of tutelary

1. Having guardianship or protection of.
   • 1765, Temple Henry Croker, Thomas Williams, Samuel Clark [et al.], “TUTELARY”, in The Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. In which the Whole Circle of Human Learning is Explained, and the Difficulties Attending the Acquisition of Every Art, whether Liberal or Mechanical, are Removed, in the Most Easy and Familiar Manner. [...] The Theological, Philological, and Critical Branches, by the Rev. Temple Henry Croker, A.M. Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Hillsborough. The Medicinal, Anatomical, and Chemical, by Thomas Williams, M.D. The Mathematical by Samuel Clark, Author of an Easy Introduction to to the Theory and Practice of Mechanics. And the Other Parts by Several Gentlemen Particularly Conversant in the Arts or Sciences They Have Undertaken to Explain, volume II, London: Printed for the authors, and sold by J. Wilson & J. Fell, Pater-noster Row; J[ames] Fletcher & Co. St. Paul's Church-yard; J[ohn] Coote, Pater-noster Row; Mess. Fletcher & Hodson, Cambridge; and W[illiam] Smith & Co. Dublin, →OCLC:

     TUTELARY, Tutelaris, one who has taken ſomething into his patronage and protection. It is an ancient opinion, that there are tutelary angels of kingdoms and cities, and even of particular perſons, called Guardian angels. The ancient Romans, it is certain, had their tutelary gods, whom they called Penates. – And the Romiſh church to this day, hold an opinion not much unlike it: they believe that every perſon, at leaſt every one of the faithful, has, from the time of his birth, one of thoſe tutelary angels attached to his perſon, to defend him from all temptations; and it is on this, principally, that their practice of invoking angels is founded. F. Anthony Macedo, a Portugueſe Jeſuit of Coimbra, has publiſhed a large work in folio, on the tutelary ſaints of all the kingdoms, provinces, and great cities of the Chriſtian world, divi tutelares orbis chriſtiani, at Liſbon, 1678.

   • 1988, H[arry] D. Harootunian, Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism, Chicago, Ill., London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 238:

     […] Mutobe [Yoshika] noted that the allocation of boundary divisions and duties to the various areas meant only that each place had its own tutelary deity down to the present […]. The importance of Mutobe's "observation" concerning the centrality of tutelary deities lies in his willingness to accept Hirata [Atsutane]'s interpretation of the origins of heaven and earth and his showing, at the same time, how this message constantly found a "living" embodiment in the figure of the tutelary deities, who reminded contemporaries of their divine origins.

2. Of or pertaining to a guardian.
   • 1612, Louis Turquet de Mayerne, translated by Edward Grimeston, The Generall Historie of Spaine, Containing All the Memorable Things that Haue Past in the Realmes of Castille, Leon, Nauarre, Arragon, Portugall, Granado, &c. and by what Means They were Vnited, and so Continue vnder Philip the Third, King of Spaine, Now Raigning; Written in French by Levvis de Mayerne Tvrqvet, vnto the Yeare 1583: Translated into English and Continued unto these Times by Edvvard Grimeston, Esquire, London: Printed by A. Islip, and G[eorge] Eld, →OCLC, page 368:

     The Eſtates of Arragon and Cattelogne were aſſembled at Monçon in the yeare 1236. for the continuance of this warre, and the conqueſt of Valencia; without the which it was not lawfull for the king to vndertake any matter of importance. The Preſident at theſe eſtates was Pedro Perez Iuſtice maior of Arragon, where there aſſiſted […] D. Ponce Cabrera Earle tutelarie of Vrgel, […]