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a1691 R. Baxter Reliquæ Baxterianæ (1696) iii. 53 The Oath cannot be imposed on me, because I am none of the three sorts of Offenders there mentioned... The third sort is School-Teachers, which is not my Case (though I have also a License to Teach School.).

1736 S. Stonehouse Rational Method of Fitting Youth for Business 31 School-Teachers..usually think the Learning they have acquired at School, abundantly sufficient for their Purpose.

1794 H. L. Piozzi Brit. Synonymy I. 14 Our parents and school teachers wear out their lives in keeping the confines of conversation free from all touch of vicinity with ordinary people.

1830 Spirit of Pilgrims Feb. 71 He published an edition of the New Testament, with notes and hints for school-teachers.

1881 J. G. Fitch Lect. Teaching (ed. 3) 38 If we seek to classify the objects of instruction, so far as they lie within the purview of a school-teacher.

1924 N.Y. Times Mag. 8 June 15/2 Their feelings were similar to those of an elderly school teacher who goes to a lecture on relativity, only to find herself..in the wrong theatre with a burlesque show starting.

1965 R. A. Musick Telltale Lilac Bush xv. 26 A tired schoolteacher was grading papers and looking over some of the work for the following day.

2002 Prospect Dec. 41/1 The core audience for literary criticism comprised students, schoolteachers, autodidacts.

1861 Chicago Evening Jrnl. 29 June in Wisconsin Jrnl. Educ. Aug. 39 The freedom of social intercourse used by their preceptor..had effaced the intensely school-teacherish customs which so often attach to the ‘Normals’.

a1930 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix (1936) 361 The heroine being one of the old-fashioned school-teacherish sort.

1990 J. Updike in W. Abraham Prize Stories 1991 O. Henry Awards (1991) 21 He kept some of his father's college notebooks, preserved in the attic, penned in a more rounded version of his legible schoolteacherish hand.