Schoolmaster

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Schoolmaster \School"mas`ter\, n.
     1. The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male
        teacher of a school.
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              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.
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     2. One who, or that which, disciplines and directs.
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              The law was our schoolmaster, to bring us unto
              Christ.                               --Gal. iii.
                                                    24.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  schoolmaster
       n 1: presiding officer of a school [syn: {headmaster}, {master}]
       2: any person (or institution) who acts as an educator
       3: food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters [syn: {Lutjanus
          apodus}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "schoolmaster":
     abecedarian, certified teacher, docent, doctor, dominie, don,
     educationist, educator, fellow, guide, guru, instructor, maestro,
     master, melamed, mentor, mullah, pandit, pedagogist, pedagogue,
     preceptor, professor, pundit, rabbi, schoolkeeper, schoolteacher,
     starets, teacher
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Schoolmaster
     the law so designated by Paul (Gal. 3:24, 25). As so used, the
     word does not mean teacher, but pedagogue (shortened into the
     modern page), i.e., one who was intrusted with the supervision
     of a family, taking them to and from the school, being
     responsible for their safety and manners. Hence the pedagogue
     was stern and severe in his discipline. Thus the law was a
     pedagogue to the Jews, with a view to Christ, i.e., to prepare
     for faith in Christ by producing convictions of guilt and
     helplessness. The office of the pedagogue ceased when "faith
     came", i.e., the object of that faith, the seed, which is
     Christ.
     

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  SCHOOLMASTER. One employed in teaching a school. 
       2. A schoolmaster stands in loco parentis in relation to the pupils 
  committed to his charge, while they are under his care, so far as to enforce 
  obedience to his, commands, lawfully given in his capacity of school-master, 
  and he may therefore enforce them by moderate correction. Com. Dig. Pleader, 
  3 M 19; Hawk. c. 60, sect. 23. Vide Correction. 
       3. The schoolmaster is justly entitled to be paid for his important and 
  arduous services by those who employ him. See 1 Bing. R. 357 8 Moore's Rep. 
  368. His duties are to teach his pupils what he has undertaken, and to have 
  a special care over their morals. See 1 Stark. R. 421.