schoolmasteringn.
/ˈskuːlˌmɑːst(ə)rɪŋ/, /ˈskuːlˌmast(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈskulˌmæst(ə)rɪŋ/ 1. The occupation or profession of a schoolmaster; schoolteaching.
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society > education > teaching > systematic or formal teaching > [noun] > school-teaching
schoolteaching1585
pedagogy1623
pedagogism1642
schoolkeeping1651
pedagoguing1804
schoolmastering1822
schooling1837
pedagoguery1857
school-marming1881
1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 177/1 One Incumbent has..fought his way through school-mastering, tutoring, and prudent economy, to that honourable office.
1894 C. H. H. Parry Stud. Great Composers: Schubert 227 Schoolmastering was a characteristic occupation of the family.
1917 T. S. Eliot Let. 29 Mar. (1988) I. 172 It is not bad work, and much more comfortable and less wearing than schoolmastering.
1970 R. Davies Fifth Business iii. ii. 132 I still wanted time to find my way, and like many a man in my case I took to schoolmastering.
1998 Daily Tel. 7 Dec. 19/4 There is a lot more to good schoolmastering than achieving As in GCSE.
2. The process of teaching a person or people; (also) an education. Now rare.
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society > education > [noun]
informationa1387
instructionc1425
eruditionc1460
culture?1510
education?1533
training1537
trainment1570
train1581
manurance1594
nurturing1629
schoolcraft1631
manurementa1639
manuring1726
schoolmastering1830
paideia1892
society > education > [noun] > systematic education > education at school
schoolOE
schooling?1577
schoolation?1578
public education1581
schoolage1603
school learning1751
schoolmastering1830
society > education > teaching > [noun] > teaching process or business
schoolmastering1912
teaching process1975
1830 G. L. Craik New Zealanders xviii. 404 We read of no schoolmastering of them to a new tongue, or to new rites, under the drawn sword.
1844 G. L. Craik Sketches Hist. Lit. & Learning Eng. II. 221 His son, though born to the throne..received a schoolmastering fit for a bishop.
1912 Catholic World Mar. 726 The schoolmastering had achieved its purpose and made a Christian people out of the invading northern hordes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
schoolmasteringadj.
/ˈskuːlˌmɑːst(ə)rɪŋ/, /ˈskuːlˌmast(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈskulˌmæst(ə)rɪŋ/ That is or acts like a schoolmaster; (also) characteristic of a schoolmaster.
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society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [adjective]
pedantic1628
schoolmasterly1654
pedagogal?1764
schoolmasterish1789
pedagoguish1830
schoolmastering1831
schoolmastery1864
schoolteaching1869
Dominical1882
1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son I. vii. 44 You don't take me for that lubberly school-mastering parson on board, do you?
1893 Times 13 Feb. 5/3 Its artificial schoolmastering tone.
1915 D. J. Snider Goethe's Life-poem i. 85 His sister Cornelia..had to take the concentrated cannonade of pedagogy from the schoolmastering parent.
1984 Washington Post (Nexis) 19 Feb. (Book World) 1 On his return to London, he dispatched a parcel to his schoolmastering friends.
2000 B. A. Gerrish & M. T. Stimming Pilgrim Road 78 He writes (in his schoolmastering style): ‘I come now to kingship: it would be futile to talk of it without first admonishing my readers that its nature is spiritual.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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