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Tutor [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In the civil law, a guardian; one who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate.

2. One who has the care of instructing another in various branches or in any branch of human learning. Some gentlemen employ a tutor to teach in their families, others to attend a son in his travels.

3. In universities and colleges, an officer or member of some hall, who has the charge of instructing the students in the sciences and other branches of learning.

4. In the American colleges, tutors are graduates selected by the governors or trustees, for the instruction of undergraduates of the three first years. They are usually officers of the institution, who have a share, with the president and professors, in the government of the students.

Tutor [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To teach; to instruct.

2. To treat with authority or severity.

3. To correct.

Tutor [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who guards, protects, watches over, or has the care of, some person or thing.

2. A treasurer; a keeper.

3. One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian.

4. A private or public teacher.

5. An officer or member of some hall, who instructs students, and is responsible for their discipline.

6. An instructor of a lower rank than a professor.

Tutor [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To have the guardianship or care of; to teach; to instruct.

2. To play the tutor toward; to treat with authority or severity.

Tutorage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In the civil law, guardianship; the charge of a pupil and his estate. In France, tutorage does not expire till the pupil is twenty five years of age.

2. The authority or solemnity of a tutor. [Little used.]

Tutorage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The office or occupation of a tutor; tutorship; guardianship.

Tutored [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Instructed; corrected; disciplined.

Tutored [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Tutoress [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A female tutor; an instructress; a governess.

Tutoress [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A woman who performs the duties of a tutor; an instructress.

Tutorial [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to a tutor; belonging to, or exercised by, a tutor.

Tutoring [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The act of instructing; education.

Tutoring [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Teaching; directing; correcting.

Tutoring [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Tutorism [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Tutorship.

Tutorize [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To teach; to instruct.

Tutorship [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The office, duty, or care of a tutor; guardianship; tutelage.

Tutory [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Tutorage.

Physical Sensibility Roget’s Thesaurus §375

N. sensibility, sensitiveness, # physical sensibility, feeling, impressibility, perceptivity, aesthetics, moral sensibility, sensation, impression, consciousness, external senses

V. be sensible of, feel, perceive, render sensible, sharpen, cultivate, tutor, cause sensation, impress, excite an impression, produce an impression

Adj. sensible, sensitive, sensuous, aesthetic, perceptive, sentient, conscious, acute, sharp, keen, vivid, lively, impressive, thin-skinned

Adv. to the quick

Phr. "the touch'd needle trembles to the pole"

Teaching Roget’s Thesaurus §537

N. teaching, instruction, edification, education, tuition, tutorage, tutelage, direction, guidance, opsimathy, qualification, preparation, training, schooling, discipline, excitation, drill, practice, book exercise, persuasion, proselytism, propagandism, propaganda, indoctrination, inculcation, inoculation, advise, explanation, lesson, lecture, sermon, apologue, parable, discourse, prolection, preachment, chalk talk, chautauqua, exercise, task, curriculum, course, course of study, grammar, three r's, initiation, a, b, c, &c (beginning) 66, elementary education, primary education, secondary education, technical education, college education, collegiate education, military education, university education, liberal education, classical education, religious education, denominational education, moral education, secular education, propaedeutics, moral tuition, gymnastics, calisthenics, physical drill, physical education, sloyd, phonics, rote, rote memorization, brute memory, cooperative learning, montessori method, ungraded classes, test, examination, exam, final exam, mid-term exam grade, score, marks, a, b, c, d, e, f, gentleman's c, pass, fail, incomplete, homework, take-home lesson, exercise for the student, theme, project

V. teach, instruct, educate, edify, school, tutor, cram, prime, coach, enlighten, inculcate, indoctrinate, inoculate, infuse, instill, infix, ingraft, infiltrate, imbue, impregnate, implant, graft, sow the seeds of, disseminate, given an idea of, put up to, put in the way of, set right, sharpen the wits, enlarge the mind, give new ideas, open the eyes, bring forward, "teach the young idea how to shoot", improve, expound, lecture, read a lesson, give a lesson, give a lecture, give a sermon, give a discourse, incept, hold forth, preach, sermonize, moralize, point a moral, train, discipline, bring up, bring up to, form, ground, prepare, qualify, drill, exercise, practice, habituate, familiarize with, nurture, drynurse, breed, rear, take in hand, break, break in, tame, preinstruct, initiate, inure, put to nurse, send to school, direct, guide, direct attention to, impress upon the mind, impress upon the memory, beat into, beat into the head, convince, book, workbook, exercise book, preach to the wise, teach one's grandmother to suck eggs, teach granny to suck eggs, preach to the converted

Adj. teaching, taught, educational, scholastic, academic, doctrinal, disciplinal, instructive, instructional, didactic, propaedeutic, propaedeutical

Phr. the schoolmaster abroad, a bovi majori disscit arare minor, adeo in teneris consuecere multum est, docendo discimus, quaenocent docent, qui docet discit, "sermons in stones and good in everything"