grammatist

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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

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

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

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

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