Meanings
nounscholemaster (plural scholemasters)
plural scholemasters
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of schoolmaster.
For commonlie, many scholemasters, some, as I haue seen, moe, as I haue heard tell, be of so crooked a nature, as, when they meete with a hard witted scholer, they rather breake him, than bowe him, rather marre him, then mend him.
1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster
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