prentice
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]An old (Middle English) aphetic form of apprentice: that is, a form which lost the unstressed initial vowel a and reduced the initial double pp to a single p.
Noun
[edit]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.
Verb
[edit]prentice (third-person singular simple present prentices, present participle prenticing, simple past and past participle prenticed)
- (transitive, obsolete) To apprentice.
Synonyms
[edit]- (noun, verb): apprentice, 'prentice