单词 | schoolhouse |
释义 | schoolhousen. 1. a. A building in which a school is held, esp. in a small community or village. Also: a house provided by the school authorities for a schoolteacher (usually the head teacher) to live in, typically attached to or adjoining a school.Now chiefly historical in the U.K. In New Zealand only in the sense ‘residence of a country schoolteacher’. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > educational buildings > [noun] > school schoolhousea1272 pedagogue1500 school1519 school building1713 a1272 in P. H. Reaney Place-names Essex (1935) 286 (MED) Terra del Scolhus. 1275 in W. Illingworth Rotuli Hundredorum (1812) I. 451 (MED) Radulphum atte Skolehus. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 8167 (MED) As she went to þe scole hous, A lorde..was a-namourd..on hyre. 1447–8 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 356 And in the west side of the same yate a scolehous benethe. a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 44 (MED) O Emperour full worthy, ordeyne scolehouses and stablissh studies. ?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. 353 Maitland, Melwill, and Matchevellous, Learned never mair knaifrie in a scholehous. a1610 J. Healey tr. Cebes' Table in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) 156 It is an easie thing for one to be a deepe scholer, & yet bee as prone to drunkenness..as hee that neuer saw the inside of a school-house. 1673 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 115 In the Diocesse of Raphoe there is a freeschoole..but there is noe publicke schoolhouse built there or elsewhere in the Diocesse. 1741 J. Clewlow Let. 10 Oct. in J. Stevenson Two Cent. Life in Down (1920) vii. 151 Mr Echlin..desired to know of ye vestry wither ye Parish wou'd be willing to keep up ye schoolhouse, att their own cost. 1796 Baltimore Town Direct. 9 Bond Richard, schoolmaster,..schoolhouse, Dutch Alley. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian viii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 207 Seated on the benches of the school-house, they began to con their lessons together. 1870 Act 33 & 34 Victoria c. 75 §72 If the managers or teacher of any school refuse..to allow the inspector to inspect the schoolhouse or examine any scholar [etc.]. 1941 C. Barrett Aust. 47 Close to the little schoolhouse an elderly koala had selected a home-tree. 1988 G. Somerset Sunshine & Shadow 38 Our square two-storied school-house..faced north into the school grounds. 2001 Mode Aug. 48/2 Hearing Grandpa's wonderful tales of his childhood in the horse-in-buggy days—of the time he hit his teacher in his one-room schoolhouse with a spitwad. b. In various figurative and extended uses. ΚΠ c1450 (c1400) Bk. Vices & Virtues (Huntington) (1942) 53 Þe tauerne is þe deueles scole hous, for þere studieþ his disciples. 1541 (title) Here begynneth a lytle boke named the Scole house of women. a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 19 Erasmus..saide wiselie that experience is the common scholehouse of foles, and ill men. 1607 S. Hieron Discovery of Hypocrisie 75 Hee dooth first traine them vp in the schoolehouse of his Church. 1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix vi. iv. 441 We are naturally inclined unto the Schoole-house of Satan, and Chappell of ill counsell. 1777 Merlinus Liberatus sig. A2 Belus, the father of Nimrod, built the school-house of learning, and much propagated the art [of astrology]. 1857 F. W. Faber Sir Lancelot (ed. 2) i. 20 The lone Knight surveyed The sanctuary of cloudy years to come, The narrow vale and clasping bound of hills, The silent school-house of his solitude. 1897 E. W. Wilcox Three Women viii. 140 The days, like glad children, went hurrying out From the schoolhouse of time. 1990 Elle Aug. 134/2 Manulis is operating a schoolhouse more than a shop window, a kind of designer's boot camp and an invaluable training ground. 2. Also with capital initial(s). At certain British public schools: (the name given to) the house (house n.1 7c) in which the headmaster lives. Also: the boys of this house collectively; a sports team from this house. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > educational buildings > [noun] > school > teacher's or headmaster's house schoolhouse1842 teacherage1916 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > official residence > [noun] > of people in specific employment almonry1440 ferry house1595 prefecture1802 station house1805 pilothouse1812 lodging1826 schoolhouse1842 wardenry1859 adviserate1938 society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > division of pupils > house schoolhouse1842 house1856 1842 Scores of Cricket Matches played at Rugby School from MDCCCXXXI 9 (heading) The School House v. The School... The School House having 2 to beat, the Match was given up. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. v. 98 The long line of grey buildings, beginning with the chapel, and ending with the school-house, the residence of the head-master. 1887 Spectator 25 June 859/2 When the sixth form, or the School House, played against the rest of the school. 1908 C. E. Woodruff & H. J. Cape Schola Regia Cantuariensis 264 Probably few of the younger boys of the School-house realize how much of the comfort of their daily life is due to Mrs. Galpin's unremitting care. 1992 Times Educ. Suppl. 31 Jan. 96/3 (advt.) We wish to appoint a Senior Housemistress..to take charge of School House... The successful applicant will be..responsible to the Headmaster for the welfare of the house. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 426 (MED) Hym happend se þe scolehowse dure oppyn. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 69 You beyng ignoraunt what difference is betwixt an affirmative, & a negative proposition, must be turned doune agayne behinde the Schoolehouse doore. 1601–2 Montrose Burgh Treasurer's Accts. f. 5v For ane key to the scuill hous vynd. 1717 in S. A. Bates Rec. Braintree (Mass.) (1886) 91 Their [sic] should be a Reconsideration of the late vote of ye Town, about the new school house frame set up. 1792 D. Lysons Environs London I. 209 In the church-yard near the school-house door, is the tomb of Thomas Gainsborough. 1841 R. W. Emerson Love in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 173 The rude village boy teazes the girls about the school-house door. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. vi. 127 Come along down to Sally Harrowell's; that's our School-house tuck shop—she bakes such stunning murphies. 1931 E. Ferber Amer. Beauty vii. 135 Yet even with this double protection of wool her feet were always numb as they stumbled up the school-house step. 1955 ‘Miss Read’ Village School ii. 16 A low dry-stone wall runs along by the road dividing it from the churchyard, school playground and the school-house garden. 1997 Blueprint Mar. 34/1 At one end are scattered white, schoolhouse wooden chairs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1272 |
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