tutelary

• As we sallied forth together the glamour of Egypt faded by degrees, and when he shook my hand stiffly at the gate of the Bellinghams' house, all his vivacity and enthusiasm had vanished, leaving the taciturn lawyer, dry, uncommunicative, and not a little suspicious CHAPTER X THE NEW ALLIANCE The "Great Lexicographer"--tutelary deity of my adopted habitat--has handed down to shuddering posterity a definition of the act of eating which might have been framed by a dyspeptic ghoul. —  The Eye of Osiris
• The Fairy, tutelary or persecuting, of the chivalrous metrical romance 7. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
• The Fairy, tutelary or persecuting, now giving and now turning destinies, of the fairy tale proper We have then to ask what are the terms, marks, common traits, or by whatsoever name they are to be called, which are yielded by a comparison of such seven kinds. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
• There is nothing that does not partake of that of which the missionary, or the tutelary, is the special. —  The Book of the Damned
• If a youth possessed great business talents he adopted Mercury as his tutelary deity; should he, on the other hand, develop a passion for music, Apollo was selected as his patron god, and so forth. —  Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome

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