pupillarity

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin pūpillāritās.

Noun

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pupillarity (plural pupillarities)

  1. (Scots law) The period before puberty, or from birth to fourteen in males, and twelve in females
  2. pupilage
    • 1668 December 19th, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575
      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.
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