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head master, ˌheadˈmaster
The principal master of a school, having assistant masters under him.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 357 The head maister of the schole lysteneth. 1656Blount Glossogr., Gymnasiarch, the head Master of the place where Champions did exercise, also the head Master of a School. 1791Boswell Johnson 29 Apr. an. 1778, We were all as quiet as a school upon the entrance of the head-master. 1829Lytton Devereux i. iii, The head-master publicly complimented him.
Hence headˈmaster v., to act as headmaster; also transf.; headˈmasterdom (nonce-wd.), the world or sphere of headmasters; headˈmasterly a.; headˈmastership, the position or office of headmaster.
1827Arnold Let. 21 Oct. in Stanley Life & Corr. ii. (1890) 48 Wishing to procure for me the head-mastership at Rugby. 1892Pall Mall G. 21 Jan. 2/2 The successful removal of Uppingham to Borth by Mr. Thring was always regarded as one of the greatest triumphs in the annals of headmasterdom. 1940J. H. Jagger English in Future vi. 73 No novelist has headmastered his countrymen as frequently as Mr. H. G. Wells. 1959R. Fuller Ruined Boys 154 The school..so brilliantly headmastered. 1964English Studies XLV (Suppl.). 9 Further headmasterly duties took him to Klagenfurt. 1965G. Household Olura 175 A headmasterly grief that there should be nigger-lovers in the upper forms. 1967Guardian 4 Oct. 1/4 A headmasterly chat. |