Obs. Also -isage, -issage. [a. Fr. apprentissage: see APPRENTICE sb. and -AGE.] Apprenticeship; time wherein to learn or acquire experience. Often fig.
1592. Bacon, Observ. Libel, in Resuscitatio (1657), 125 (T.). To be, utterly, without Apprentisage, of Warr.
1621. Donne, Serm., cxvii. V. 73. Seven years apprenticeage which your occupations cost you.
1678. Young, Serm. Whitehall, 29 Dec., 22. Christianity is our Profession, and Life is our Apprentisage.
