grammatist

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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

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.

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 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

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