请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 undermaster
释义

undermastern.

Etymology: under- prefix1 3a(a). Compare Middle Dutch and Dutch ondermeester, Middle Low German undermêster, Middle High German undermeister.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈunderˌmaster.
1. A subordinate instructor; esp. in schools, a master or teacher below the head-master.By Wyclif used to render Latin pædagogus.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > law > [noun] > before Christ
little masterc1384
undermastera1425
society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [noun] > assistant teacher
submasterc1450
usher1512
undermaster1561
under-usher1561
pedagogue?1566
underteacher1581
janitor1584
hypodidascal1625
under-doctora1649
assistant master1872
usheress1879
TA1969
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Gal. iii. 25 Aftir that bileue cam, we ben not now vndur the vndurmaistir.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Gal. iii. 24 And so the lawe was oure vndir~maister in Crist.
1561 in H. B. Wilson Hist. Merchant-Taylors' Sch. (1814) 14 The high maister..shall say to the ussher,..I have chosen you to be the chief ussher or under maister of this schoole.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Sottomaestro, an vnder master, an vsher of a schoole.
1709 Irish Act 8 Anne c. 3 §16 Several protestant school-masters..do entertain such persons..to be ushers, under-masters, or assistants.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1784 II. 509 [Johnson:] They were written by one Lewis, an under-master or usher of Westminster School.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 250 Masters and under-masters of choruses.
a1887 Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles (1888) I. i. iv. 21 [He] was earning his own living as an under-master in a school.
2. A subordinate director or supervisor. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > director > subordinate
undermaster1688
1688 London Gaz. No. 2322/3 The Under-Master of the Horse.
1703 London Gaz. No. 3914/4 The Earl of Marr served as Carver,..and Sir William Enstruther, Baronet, as under Master Houshold.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
<
n.a1425
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/9/20 16:55:54