grammatist

Example Sentences

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The ludi magister at Rome held a position even less enviable than that held by the grammatist at Athens.

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

The teacher of this school came to be known as a grammatist.

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

And since his owner showed him great kindness, he attended the school of a grammatist.

From History of the Wars, Books I and II The Persian War by Dewing, H. B.

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