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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Schoolmaster  \School"mas`ter\,  n. 
  1.  The  man  who  presides  over  and  teaches  a  school;  a  male 
  teacher  of  a  school. 
 
  Let  the  soldier  be  abroad  if  he  will  he  can  do 
  nothing  in  this  age.  There  is  another  personage 
  abroad,  --  a  person  less  imposing,  --  in  the  eyes  of 
  some  perhaps,  insignificant.  The  schoolmaster  is 
  abroad;  and  I  trust  to  him  armed  with  his  primer, 
  against  the  soldier  in  full  military  array. 
  --Brougham. 
 
  2.  One  who  or  that  which  disciplines  and  directs. 
 
  The  law  was  our  schoolmaster,  to  bring  us  unto 
  Christ.  --Gal.  iii. 
  24. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  schoolmaster 
  n  1:  presiding  officer  of  a  school  [syn:  {headmaster},  {master}] 
  2:  any  person  (or  institution)  who  acts  as  an  educator 
  3:  food  fish  of  warm  Caribbean  and  Atlantic  waters  [syn:  {Lutjanus 
  apodus}] 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Schoolmaster 
  the  law  so  designated  by  Paul  (Gal.  3:24,  25).  As  so  used  the 
  word  does  not  mean  teacher,  but  pedagogue  (shortened  into  the 
  modern  page),  i.e.,  one  who  was  intrusted  with  the  supervision 
  of  a  family,  taking  them  to  and  from  the  school,  being 
  responsible  for  their  safety  and  manners.  Hence  the  pedagogue 
  was  stern  and  severe  in  his  discipline.  Thus  the  law  was  a 
  pedagogue  to  the  Jews,  with  a  view  to  Christ,  i.e.,  to  prepare 
  for  faith  in  Christ  by  producing  convictions  of  guilt  and 
  helplessness.  The  office  of  the  pedagogue  ceased  when  "faith 
  came",  i.e.,  the  object  of  that  faith,  the  seed,  which  is 
  Christ. 
 




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