schoolmaster (skolmas ter)

[Early mod. E. also scholemaster; = He saith it [learning] is the corrupter of the simple, the schoole master of sinne, the storehouse of treacherie, the reuiuer of vices, and mother of cowardize. Nashe , Pierce Penile e, p. 39. The law was our schoolmaster [ tutor , R. V.] to bring us unto Christ. Gal. iii. 24. The schoolmaster is abroad, a phrase used to expre the general diffusion of education and of intelligence resulting from education. It is also often used ironically ( abroad taken as 'absent in foreign parts') to imply a condition of ignorance. Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad-a person le 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 , Speech, Jan. 29, 1828. ( Bartlett .) schoolmate (sköl'māt), n. [ mate1 .] One of either sex who attends the same school; a school companion.