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cotutor

cotutor noun: a joint tutor.

Noun

cotutor (plural cotutors)

  1. A joint tutor.
    • The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Diſcharge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extinguiſh the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and conſequently of all the reſt, they being all correi debendi, lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Diſcharged as to one, and ſtand as to all the...1668 December 19th, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575

Forms of cotutor

pluralcotutors

Origin of cotutor

From co- + tutor.

Questions about cotutor

What does cotutor mean?
Cotutor means a joint tutor.
What part of speech is cotutor?
Cotutor is a noun.
What is the plural of cotutor?
The plural of cotutor is cotutors.

Words near cotutor in the dictionary

  1. cotunnelling
  2. cotunnite
  3. cotunnites
  4. coturnism
  5. cotutelage
  6. cotutor
  7. cotutors
  8. cotwal
  9. cotwals
  10. cotwin
  11. cotwins

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