Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A grammarian.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A petty grammarian.
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- noun historical A
teacher ofprose literature and letters in Ancient Greece.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The _ludi magister_ at Rome held a position even less enviable than that held by the _grammatist_ at Athens.
The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904
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The grammatist represented the earliest or primary teacher.
The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904
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The teacher of this school came to be known as a _grammatist_.
The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904
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The teacher in this school gradually separated himself from the grammatist, and often the two were found in adjoining rooms in the same school.
The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904
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This corresponded to the school of the Athenian _grammatist_, and like it the instruction consisted of reading, writing, and counting.
The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904
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To the _grammatist_, who was doubtless an evolution from an earlier tribal scribe, he went to learn to read and write and count.
The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904
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a grammarian and a grammatist, applying the former term to men of real erudition, the latter to those whose pretensions to learning are moderate; and this opinion Orbilius supports by examples.
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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