pupil-mongern.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Northampt. 291 He was the greatest Pupil-monger in England in mans memory.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Pupil-mongers, tutors at the Universities, that have many Pupils, and make a Penny of them.

1707 S. Wesley Reply to Mr. Palmer’s Vindic. Dissenters 40 Nor is every one who understands the Sciences oblig'd in Conscience to set up for a Pupil-monger.

1773 W. Cole in G. Peacock Statutes Cambr. (1841) App. A. i My learned Friend, Mr. Farmer, Fellow and Pupilmonger of Emanuel College.

1846 A. W. M'Clure Lives John Wilson, John Norton, & John Davenport 257 His popularity as a teacher was such, that Fuller calls him the greatest pupil-monger ever known in England.

1877 C. Wordsworth Scholae Academicae 11 Richard Laughton of Clare, the popular ‘pupil-monger’.

1984 Hist. Jrnl. 27 14 Richard Laughton, one of Moore's earliest chaplains, was eighteenth-century Cambridge's most renowned ‘pupil-monger’.

1993 Jrnl. Relig. 73 166 William Perkins, the most influential English theologian and foremost ‘pupil monger’ at Cambridge at the end of the sixteenth century.

1833 W. Wordsworth Let. 17 June in C. Wordsworth Mem. (1851) II. 264 You are at an age when the blossom of the mind are setting, to make fruit; and the practice of pupil-mongering is an absolute blight for this process.