v. [f. as prec. + -IZE.] a. intr. To act as a tutor; to play the tutor. (Also with it.) b. trans. To be tutor to; to instruct as a tutor.
1611. Cotgr., Preceptorizer, to teach, instruct, tutorize it.
1839. F. W. Faber, Lett. (1869), 77. I have been tutorized in the Breviary by a very nice priest.
1861. Wheat & Tares, 3. You are coming with us to Westborough,… to tutorise Robert?
1873. Helps, Anim. & Mast., vi. (1875), 145. He would tutorize a poor Sizar without receiving any payment.
1899. H. G. Graham, Soc. Life Scotl. in 18th C., IX. § 5. II. 116. For £5 a year, ‘with board and washing,’ they tutorised the children.
Hence Tutorizing vbl. sb.; also Tutorization, tutoring, tuition.
1837. Whewell, in Todhunter, Acc. Writ. (1876), II. 263. Operations in the way of tutorizing and the like.
1842. G. S. Faber, Prov. Lett. (1844), I. 18. He … will not be long in perceiving, under good Romish Tutorisation, that [etc.].
1844. Q. Rev., June, 78. Mr. Wm. Scott … was very willing to have his brother’s assistance in the tutorizing at University, for which John no doubt had remuneration.
