verb
- bound or placed as an apprentice to learn a trade or skill
Usage: archaic; past tense of ‘prentice’
Examples
- The young man was prenticed to a blacksmith for seven years.
- She had been prenticed to learn the art of weaving.
- Many children were prenticed to craftsmen in medieval times.
- He was prenticed at age fourteen to a carpenter.
- The boy’s parents prenticed him to a merchant.