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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 656 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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GUARDIAN , one who See also:

GUARDS, AND HOUSEHOLD TROOPS

guards or defends another, a See also:

PROTECTOR

protector. The O. Fr. guarden, See also:

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden, mod. gardien, from guarder, garder, is of See also:

Teutonic origin, from the See also:

BASE

base See also:

war-, to protect, cf. O.H. Ger. warten, and Eng. " See also:

ward "; thus "guardian" and " See also:

WARDEN

warden " are etymologically identical, as are " guard " and " ward "; cf. the use of the correlatives " guardian " and " ward," i.e. a See also:

minor, or See also:

PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person incapable of managing his affairs, under the See also:

PROTECTION

protection or in the custody of a guardian.

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