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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as tuitionary.

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Examples

  • The department would implement educational, training, tuitional, mentorship and bridging programmes to support affirmative action and to enable under-represented groups to compete with their colleagues on an equal footing, said Gerber.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • United States before 1870 was provided very largely in the tuitional colleges of the different religious denominations, rather than by the

    The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904

  • At length a slight embarrassment interfered with the flow of his talk, which, having been solely of tuitional matters, began to take a turn more personal.

    The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories George Gissing 1880

  • It was a recreational, or at least a social, rather than a tuitional house; which fact had, I really believe, weighed favourably with our parents, when, bereft of M. Lerambert, they asked themselves, with their considerable practice, how next to bestow us.

    A Small Boy and Others Henry James 1879

  • For in this we have whole rivers of predispositions, good or bad, set running in us — as much more powerful to shape our future than all tuitional and regulative influences that come after, as they are earlier in their beginning, deeper in their insertion, and more constant in their operation.

    Christian Nurture. 1802-1876 1876

  • It is the distinction between the age of impressions and the age of tuitional influences; or between the age of existence in the will of the parent, and the age of will and personal choice in the child.

    Christian Nurture. 1802-1876 1876

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