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English Dictionary: tutelary	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for tutelary
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tutelary adj providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding; "daycare that is educational and not just custodial"; "a guardian angel"; "tutelary gods" Synonym(s): custodial, tutelary, tutelar
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tutelar \Tu"telar\, Tutelary* \Tu"telary\, a. [L. tutelaris: cf. F. tut[82]laire. See {Tutelage}.] Having the guardianship or charge of protecting a person or a thing; guardian; protecting; as, tutelary goddesses. This, of all advantages, is the greatest . . . the most tutelary of morals. --Landor.