0 past simple and past participle of apprentice
1 to make someone an apprentice:
Michelangelo was apprenticed to Ghirlandaio in Florence for three years.
Among the surviving records of nearly 130,000 apprenticeships between 1600 and 1800, approximately three times as many women took an apprentice as girls were apprenticed.
Many testators were in their dotage, of course, but a good proportion died young, still apprenticed, perhaps mentioning parents, siblings and, sometimes, a betrothed.
However, the registers also reveal a substantially higher proportion of women among those taking apprentices than among those apprenticed.
She apprenticed herself in existing traditions and saw they would not do for her or for her age.
Edward's love of animals, however, was the cause of harsh treatment from the shoemaker to whom he was apprenticed when eleven years old.
Therefore, even if we assume that all girls were apprenticed to women, twice as many boys as girls must have been set apprentice to a mistress.
He would have been apprenticed to the agricultural industry here at home.
A man may have learned a trade, perhaps been apprenticed to it, but contracts dermatitis.
