grammariann.
/ɡrəˈmɛːrɪən/, U.S. /ɡrəˈmɛriən/ 1. One versed in the knowledge of grammar, or of language generally; a philologist; often signifying also a writer upon, or teacher of grammar.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > [noun] > grammarian
grammarianc1380
grammariourc1540
Priscianist1556
grammatist1589
Priscian1598
artigrapher1753
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 376 Gramariens and devynes.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 161 Donatus þe gramarian.
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. x To sewe his style in my translation Worde by worde like the construction After the maner of gramariens.
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. cxiiv The great Grammaryens and pleasant oratours.
1583 T. Watson Poems (1870) lxviii. 104 Suidas mentioned an other Telephus, an excellent Grammarian of Pergamus.
1600 M. Sutcliffe Briefe Replie to Libel i. 9 Not vnlike hungrie Grammarians, that are descanting still of the calamities of Troie, and yet see not their owne domesticall miseries.
1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §8 I have seene a Grammarian toure, and plume himselfe over a single line in Horace. View more context for this quotation
1681 H. Neville Plato Redivivus 123 I know some Criticks, who are rather Grammarians than Lawyers, have made a distinction between elegerim and elegero.
a1704 T. Brown Ess. Satire Ancients in Wks. (1730) I. 22 They have commented upon him like grammarians not philosophers.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) The Denomination Grammarian, is, like that of Critic, now frequently used as a Term of Reproach; A mere Grammarian; A dry, plodding Grammarian, &c.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 161 They serve only as exceptions; which, in the grammarian's phrase, confirm and prove a general canon.
a1806 H. K. White Remains (1807) I. 5 All that arithmeticians know, Or stiff grammarians quaintly teach.
1861 W. F. Hook Lives Archbps. (1869) I. vii. 436 The homilies of Elfric the Grammarian.
1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. ii. xiii. 359 (note) He educated a grammarian not inferior to himself.
2. † a. A pupil engaged in the study of grammar; a grammar-school boy. Obsolete.
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society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > grammar school pupil
grammarian1571
grammar-scholar1580
grammar-boy1590
grammar-lad1644
grammar-child1690
glomerel1841
1571 Vestry Minutes St. Olave's, Southwark in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 65 He should have twentye marks by the yere..to teache so many gramaryens as we think shall be found meet for the same.
1607 Statutes in M. H. Peacock Hist. Free Gram. School Wakefield (1892) 71 Because this schole is not ordained for petties but for grammarians.
b. A member of the class named ‘Grammar’ in certain Jesuit schools or colleges.
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society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > division of pupils > Roman Catholic or Jesuit > specific form > pupil in
poet1674
rhetorician1676
grammarian1705
Syntaxian1705
philosopher1711
syntactician1774
poetician1895
figuration1904
1705 in Ushaw Mag. (1903) Dec. 298.
1837 J. C. Fisher in Ushaw Mag. (1904) Dec. 250 In the cyphering school with the Grammarians and High Fig[ures].
1904 in Ushaw Mag. Mar. 98.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > [adjective] > relating to or befitting a grammarian
grammarian1589
grammatistical1837
1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) v. xxvii. 119 Grammarian-like, in order words significant to speake.
1853 W. Whewell in I. Todhunter William Whewell (1876) II. 376 The absurd iniustice of our grammarian critics.
Derivatives
graˈmmarianism n. [see -ism suffix] the principles or practice of a grammarian.In later dictionaries.
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1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Chr. Observer).
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