Forms: 5–6 tuicion, tuission, etc. (with y for either i, and -one, -oun(e, for -on), 6 tuytion, -tyon, tuityon, 6–7 -tione, 5– tuition. [a. AF. tuycioun, obs. F. tuition (Cotgr., 1611), OF. tuicion, -ssion, -tion (1335 in Godef.), ad. L. tuitio guard, guardianship, n. of action from L. tuērī to look to, look after.]
† 1. The action of looking after or taking care of, or condition of being taken care of; safe-keeping, protection, defence, custody, care, tutelage. Obs.
[1292. Britton, I. xvii. § 2. Et si il reconusent felonie … et prient tuycioun del eglise [transl. and beg the protection of the church).]
1436. Libel Eng. Policy, in Pol. Poems (Rolls), II. 201. There glorified in reste wyth his tuicione, The deité to see wyth fulle fruicione.
1462. Edw. IV., in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. II. I. 129. For the tuicion and defence of this owr Realme.
1557. Order of Hospitalls, F vij. Which [copy] he shall haue vnder the Auditors hands, in his own tuition.
c. 1575. J. Hooker, Life Sir P. Carew (1857), 276. I commit your Lordeship to the tuission of the Almightie.
1611. Broughton, Require Agreement, 53. A jest … that Diana … was so busie about Alexanders birth, that she forgot the tuition of her owne Temple.
1693. Stair, Inst. Law Scot. (ed. 2), I. vi. § 1. There is a Duty of Tuition, and Protection of Orphans.
1790. Burke, Fr. Rev., 352. Liberty without wisdom, and without virtue … is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
† b. spec. The position of a guardian or TUTOR in relation to a ward; guardianship. Obs.
1494. Fabyan, Chron., V. ci. 75. Clodomyrus was slayne, leuyng … .li. sonnes … whiche .iii. sonnes Clotilde toke to her tuyssion & guydynge.
1568. Hist. Jacob & Esau, I. ii. A iv. They were brought vp bothe vnder one tuition.
1643. Prynne, Sov. Power Parl., App. 21. They chose Eudo,… to be King … till Charles should come to his lawfull age, whom they put under Eudo his tuition.
1690. Locke, Govt., II. vi. § 67. That [power] which the Father hath, in the Right of Tuition, during Minority.
† c. concr. A defence, fortification. Obs. rare–1.
1513. Life Henry V. (1911), 109. This Towne was fortified wth innumerable tuytions and defences.
2. The action or business of teaching a pupil or pupils; the function of a tutor or instructor (see TUTOR); teaching, instruction.
1582. in Campion’s Wks. (1909), Introd. 26. Allowance for Thomas Sisley and Thomas Campion at Cambridge beginning at cristmas 1582. First, eche of them for thir diete weakely ijs. vjd.: in the whole yere … xiij. li. Item, thir tuition yerely xlv.s for eche.
1619. Sir R. Boyle, Diary, in Lismore Papers (1886), I. 235. vli that he gave the ffrenchman and his wyffe for their first quarters tuicon of my children.
1781. Gibbon, Decl. & F., xix. II. 129. They pursued their studies … under the tuition of the most skilful masters.
1807. Southey, H. K. White, 3. One of the ushers, when he came to receive the money due for tuition.
1845. E. Holmes, Mozart, 7. Obliged to devote every hour that he could spare … to tuition on the violin and clavier.
b. attrib., as tuition-fee, -money.
1867. Aug. J. E. Wilson, Vashti, viii. In future I shall not advance one cent of my tuition-money.
Hence Tuitional a., pertaining or relating to tuition; of a school, supported by tuition-fees; Tuitionary a., pertaining to tuition.
1847. Bushnell, Chr. Nurt., II. i. (1861), 229. *Tuitional and regulative influences that come after.
1892. E. F. Williams, in Chicago Advance, 24 Nov. What are called ‘Daughter Schools,’ or the ‘Higher Girls Schools’ [in Germany],… are for the most part tuitional schools.
1906. United Free Ch. Mag., July, 6/1. The tuitional side of missionary work.
1879. M. C. Tyler, Hist. Amer. Lit., xiii. II. 93. The clerical profession … to develop the other learned professions—the legal, medical, and *tuitionary.
