apprentice, aprentise, aprentys

[In Fr. apprenti, as s. an apprentice; as adj. apprenticed; from apprendre = to learn; O. Fr. & Prov. app rent is, apprentiz: Sp. aprendiz = an apprentice; aprender = to learn; Low Lat. apprenticius = an apprentice; Cla . Lat. apprendo (poetic) = appre hen do to seize, to comprehend.] [APPREHEND.] 1. Ordinary Language & Law : A young man, or young woman, who has been bound by indentures to serve a particular master or mistre for a certain term of years; the master again, on his side, covenanting to teach the apprentice the trade or profe ion which he himself practises. "A kindly man, who became attached to the little fellow, and in due time made him [Faraday] his apprentice without fee."-Tyndall: Fragments of Science , 3rd ed., xii. 349. 2. In old Law- books : Advocates or barristers under sixteen years' standing were called Apprentices ( Apprenticii ad legem). After sixteen years they might become serjeants (servientes ad legem ). (Black stone: Comment., bk. iii., ch. 3.) apprentice fee. The fee paid to a master for taking charge of, supporting, and giving technical instruction to an apprentice. ap-prěn'-tiçe, v.t. [From the substantive.] To bind as an apprentice or as apprentices. ap-prěn'-tiçed, pa . par . & a. [See APPRENTICE, v.] "Him portion'd maids, apprentic'd orphans blest, The young who labour, and the old who rest." Pope.