[ adj ] providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding <adj.all> daycare that is educational and not just custodiala guardian angel tutelary gods
Tutelar \Tu"te*lar\, Tutelary \Tu"te*la*ry\, a. [L. tutelaris: cf. F. tut['e]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.