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housemaster|ˈhaʊsˌmɑːstə(r), -æ-|
1. The master of a house or household. rare.
1878W. E. Hearn Aryan Househ. xii. §5. 289 The Aryan House-master was the member of an organized clan under the presidency of a chief. 1882Queen's Printers' Bible-Aids Gloss. s.v. Goodman, The ‘goodman’ of Prov. vii. 19 was the house-master or husband.
2. (ˈhouse-ˈmaster.) The master of one of the boarding-houses at a public school (house n.1 4 c). Also in some day schools, and transf.
1884Pall Mall G. 4 Sept. 4/2 It is to be wondered whether parents..ever realize the multifarious duties of a house⁓master. 1891Ibid. 6 Oct. 2/3 The real unit in most of the large public schools is the ‘house’, and it is the house⁓master who has the most powerful influence over his pupils. 1963R. Pedley Comprehensive School iii. 124 The house in a day school simply has not got this basis... Take, for example, a housemaster who does quite a lot of administration. 1965H. Davies Culture & Grammar School v. 85 Where senior house masters exist..they should be able to exercise an effective supervision over the boys in their care. 1966Listener 10 Mar. 342/2 We continue to put some offenders..under the care of individual probation officers and Borstal housemasters.
Hence (in sense 2) ˌhouseˈmastering, the work or functions of a housemaster; ˈhousemasterly adj., like or characteristic of a housemaster; ˌhouseˈmastership, the position or office of a housemaster.
1884Pall Mall G. 4 Sept. 4/2 With other duties to perform besides housemastering. 1886Athenæum 17 July 80/1 The unfelt gradual pressure of this system, that is so apt to make of a housemastership what fellowships have been said to be—‘the grave of learning’, and of other things besides learning which can ill be spared. 1961A. Wilson Old Men at Zoo ii. 112, I should have to hear myself speak in these housemasterly tones many times before I had done with the business. 1963Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Feb. 87/2 The effect is at once toughly moral and academic, a house-masterly harangue. |