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▪ I. ˈschoolmastering, vbl. n.
[f. schoolmaster n.1 + -ing1.]
The occupation or profession of a schoolmaster; also, an education in school.
1844Craik Sk. Hist. Lit. Eng. II. 221 His son, though born to the throne..received a schoolmastering fit for a bishop. 1845H. Rogers Ess. (1874) I. iii. 100 The native bias is so strong, that it is beyond the art of all the schoolmastering in the world to alter it. 1859Shairp in W. A. Knight Shairp & his Friends (1888) 200 As to schoolmastering..all the best comes first. 1864Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xvi. v. IV. 301 A Candidatus, say Licentiate,..Subsists, I should guess, by schoolmastering..in the Villages about. 1894Parry Stud. Gt. Composers, Schubert 227 Schoolmastering was a characteristic occupation of the family.
▪ II. ˈschoolmastering, ppl. a.
[f. schoolmaster n.1 + -ing2.]
Like, or acting as, a schoolmaster.
1831E. J. Trelawny Adv. Younger Son vii, You don't take me for that lubberly school-mastering parson on board, do you? 1893Times 13 Feb. 5/3 Its artificial schoolmastering tone. |