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Webster 1913 Edition
Schoolmaster
School′masˊter
,Noun.
1.
The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school.
Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad, – a person less imposing, – in the eyes of some, perhaps, insignificant. The
schoolmaster
is abroad; and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array. Brougham.
2.
One who, or that which, disciplines and directs.
The law was our
schoolmaster
, to bring us unto Christ. Gal. iii. 24.
Webster 1828 Edition
Schoolmaster
SCHOOL'MASTER
,Noun.
1.
The man who presides over and teaches a school; a teacher, instructor or preceptor of a school. [Applied now only or chiefly to the teachers of primary school.]Adrian VI. was sometime schoolmaster to Charles V.
2.
He or that which disciplines, instructs and leads.The law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. Gal. 3.