scholemaster

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scholemaster (plural scholemasters)

  1. Obsolete spelling of schoolmaster
    • 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster:
      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.