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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(archaic) A fee required for tuition at a school; a salary paid to a teacher..
Thoſe teachers that be of the wiſer ſort, cal for their ſchoolage and minervals of their ſcholars, not all after one maner, but diverſly: a number of them, according as the preſent occaſion requireth, who promiſe not to make them wiſe men, and that within a yeere; […]
After the Civil War, in order to determine how much revenue would be needed to educate all of the children of the state, a census was taken of schoolage children.
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Schoolage means (archaic) A fee required for tuition at a school; a salary paid to a teacher..
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Thoſe teachers that be of the wiſer ſort, cal for their ſchoolage and minervals of their ſcholars, not all after one maner, but diverſly: a number of them, according as the preſent occaſion requireth, who promiſe not to make them wiſe men, and that within a yeere; […]
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