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English
Etymology
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
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
prentice (third-person singular simple present prentices, present participle prenticing, simple past and past participle prenticed)
- (transitive, obsolete) To apprentice.
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