OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 21675

tutelary

/ˈtjuːtɪləɹɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
tutelar
Relating to guardianship or protection.
In our Athenian constitution, if we are weakly governed or capriciously, which hardly can happen, the mischief is transitory and reparable; one year closes it; and the people, both…
When a minor is involved, tutelary powers frequently accompany powers of attorney.
📚 noun • entry_id 21676

tutelary

/ˈtjuːtɪləɹɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
guardián • tutor
A deity or spirit serving as a guardian or protector of a place, person, culture, etc.; a tutelar, a tutelary deity.
The qualifications demanded in a tutelary are activity combined with power over the minor malignant devils. Thus most of the superior celestial Buddhas and Bodhisats may be, and ar…
Thus, various Amerind tribes are devoted to foot-racing; yet the races are not tests of swiftness so much as divinatory or invocatory acts designed to appeal to tutelaries, and are…
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