grammatist

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Thus every new grammatist, has some grand absurdity or other, peculiar to himself; and what can be more gross, than to talk of English infinitives and participles as being in the possessive case?

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

Had any Roman grammatist thus profited by the name of Varro or Quintilian, he would have been filled with constant dread of somewhere meeting the injured author's frowning shade!

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

To the grammatist, who was doubtless an evolution from an earlier tribal scribe, he went to learn to read and write and count.

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson

The grammatist represented the earliest or primary teacher.

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson

This corresponded to the school of the Athenian grammatist, and like it the instruction consisted of reading, writing, and counting.

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson