schoolage

See also: school age and school-age

English

Etymology 1

From school +‎ -age.

Noun

schoolage

1. (archaic) A fee required for tuition at a school; a salary paid to a teacher.
   • 1603, Plutarch, “The Contradictions of Stociek philoſophers”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 1068:

     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; […]

Further reading

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “schoolage, n.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Etymology 2

Noun

schoolage (plural schoolages)

1. Alternative form of school age.
   • 1994, Anne S. Lipscomb, Kathleen S. Hutchison, Tracing Your Mississippi Ancestors, Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 28:

     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.