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grammar school
A school for teaching grammar.
1. The name given in England to a class of schools, of which many of the English towns have one, founded in the 16th c. or earlier for the teaching of Latin. They subsequently became secondary schools of various degrees of importance, a few of them ranking little below the level of the ‘public schools’. Since the Education Act of 1944, any secondary school with a ‘liberal’ curriculum including languages, history, literature, and the sciences, as distinct from technical or modern schools.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 51 At Alexandria he heeld a gramer scole. 1454E.E. Wills (1882) 133 For to fynde to gramer scole my cosyn, his sone William. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §147, I lerned two verses at grammer-schole. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iv. vii. 37 Thou hast most traiterously corrupted the youth of the Realme, in erecting a Grammar Schoole. 1616R. C. Times' Whistle ii. 845 The foole Was never farther than the grammer schoole. 1647Laws Massachusetts (1672) 136 Where any Town shall increase to the number of one hundred Families..they shall set up a Grammar School. 1711Steele Spect. No. 157 ⁋1 The many Heart-aches and Terrors, to which our Childhood is exposed in going through a Grammar-School. 1809Kendall Trav. III. lxxvii. 197 It differs therefore in nothing from the other grammar schools, called academies. 1858De Quincey Autobiog. Sk. Wks. II. 268 At the little town of Hawkshead..a grammar-school (which, in English usage, means a school for classical literature) was founded. 1874Green Short Hist. vi. §4. 305 The grammar schools of Edward the Sixth and of Elizabeth..had changed the very face of England. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. V. xxii. 577 They provided for a school in each town, a grammar-school in each county, and a university in the state. 1963Barnard & Lauwerys Handbk. Brit. Educ. Terms 101 Grammar school,..The term nowadays is used for a secondary school with an academic curriculum, particularly suited for preparing pupils for entry to the universities or professions.
attrib.1826Syd. Smith Wks. (1869) 529 An Hamiltonian makes, in six or seven lessons, three or four hundred times as many exchanges of English for French or Latin, as a grammar schoolboy can do. 1898J. K. Jerome Second Thoughts of Idle Fellow 266, I like to think of him [Shakespeare] as poacher, as village ne'er-do-well, denounced by the local grammar-school master.
2. U.S. ‘In the system of graded common schools in the United States, the grade or department in which English grammar is one of the subjects taught’ (Cent. Dict.).
1860Worcester, Grammar-School..2. A school next in rank above a primary school and below a high school. (U.S.) 18..Amer. Cycl. VI. 424 (Cent.) After passing through the primary grade..the pupil enters the grammar school. |