'prentice

Meanings

noun'prentice (plural 'prentices)

obsoleteApheretic form of apprentice.
"You're going to be made a 'prentice of, Oliver."
1838, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in Oliver Twist

verb'prentice (third-person singular simple present 'prentices, present participle 'prenticing, simple past and past participle 'prenticed)

present singular third person 'prentices · participle present 'prenticing · participle past 'prenticed · past 'prenticed

obsoleteApheretic form of apprentice.
Two thousand a-year without debt or drawback — except for the little love-child, indeed; aye, I had forgot her; but she may be 'prenticed out at a small cost, and then what does it signify?
1811, Jane Austen, chapter 30, in Sense and Sensibility
Synonyms: apprentice, prentice

verbApheretic form of apprentice.

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From prentice, an old (Middle English) apheretic form of apprentice, with the apostrophe added to indicate the lost letters.

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