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glomery Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈglɒmərɪ|
[ad. med.L. glomeria, prob. ad. AF. *glomerie = *gramarie grammar; for the form cf. glamour.]
Master of Glomery (= L. Magister Glomeriæ), the title of an official formerly recognized by the University of Cambridge, apparently the head of the grammar-school or schools (see quot. 1873). (Cf. glomerel.)
[1276Bp. Balsham in Fuller Hist. Camb. (1655) 22 Inprimis volumus & ordinamus quod magister Glomeriæ Cant. qui pro tempore fuerit, audiat & decidat universas [? a word missing] glomerellorum ex parte rea existentium. 1500Stat. Camb. (1785) 33 Quod nullus sit simul magister glomeriæ et procurator universitatis. Ibid. 57 Tunc demum per magistrum grammaticæ..vel per magistrum glomeriæ in ejus defectu procuratoribus præsentetur. ]a1591Stokys in G. Peacock Stat. Camb. (1841) App. p. xxxii, The Master of Grammar shall be browght by the Bedyll to the Place where the Master of Glomerye dwellyth, at iij of the Clocke, and the Master of Glomerye shall go before, and his eldyst son nexte him. [1655Fuller Hist. Camb. 24 But what should be the sense of Glomerelli and Magister Glomeriæ..we must confess our selves Seekers therein..let it suffice us to know, that the original of this word seems barbarous, his office narrow and topical (confin'd to Cambridge) and his certain use at this day antiquated and forgotten.] 1841G. Peacock Stat. Camb. App. p. xxxv, When..the university was regularly established, and the schools of glomery in some respect associated with it. [1873Mullinger Univ. Camb. I. 140 It was customary in the earliest times to delegate to a non-academic functionary the instruction of youth in the elements of the [Latin] language. Such, if we adopt the best supported conjecture, was the function of the Magister Glomeriæ. ] |