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pupillarity

noun

  1. The period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen in males, and twelve in females

  2. pupilage

    The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Diſcharge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extinguiſh the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and conſequently of all the reſt, they being all correi debendi, lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Diſcharged as to one, and ſtand as to all the reſt.

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Medieval Latin pūpillāritās.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry pupillarity (CC BY-SA 4.0).

← punimpurlicue →

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