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
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
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
The teacher in this school gradually separated himself from the grammatist, and often the two were found in adjoining rooms in the same school.
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
Nay, this grammatist makes b, not a labial mute, as Walker, Webster, Cobb, and others, have called it, but a nasal subtonic, or semivowel.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
