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tute·lar
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Princeton's WordNet
custodial, tutelary, tutelaradjective
providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding
"daycare that is educational and not just custodial"; "a guardian angel"; "tutelary gods"
Wiktionary
tutelarnoun
One that is tutelary.
tutelaradjective
Serving as a guardian; protective; tutelary.
Etymology: tutelaris, from tutela + -aris.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Tutelar, Tutelaryadjective
Having the charge or guardianship of any person or thing; protecting; defensive; guardian.
Etymology: tutela, Lat.
According to the traditions of the magicians the tutelary spirits, will not remove at common appellations, but at the proper names of things, whereunto they are protectors. Brown.
Temperance, that virtue without pride, and fortune without envy, that gives indolence of body, with an equality of mind; the best guardian of youth and support of old age: the precept of reason, as well as religion, and physician of the soul as well as the body; the tutelar goddess of health, and universal medicine of life. William Temple.
These tutelar genii who presided over the several people committed to their charge, were watchful over them. Dryd.
But you, O Grecian chiefs, reward my care,
Sure I may plead a little to your grace:
Enter’d the town; I then unbarr’d the gates,
When I remov’d the tutelary fates. Dryden.Ye tutelar gods who guard this royal fabric. Nicholas Rowe.
Wikipedia
tutelar
A tutelary () (also tutelar) is a deity or a spirit who is a guardian, patron, or protector of a particular place, geographic feature, person, lineage, nation, culture, or occupation. The etymology of "tutelary" expresses the concept of safety and thus of guardianship. In late Greek and Roman religion, one type of tutelary deity, the genius, functions as the personal deity or daimon of an individual from birth to death. Another form of personal tutelary spirit is the familiar spirit of European folklore.
Webster Dictionary
Tutelaradjective
alt. of Tutelary
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of tutelar in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of tutelar in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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