scholar (skolar)

[Early mod. E. scholer, scholler (dial. scholard, scollard ), earlier scoler (the spelling scholar being a late conformation to the L. scholar is ), 5392 Ine this clergie heth dame auarice uele [fele, many] scolers . Ayenbite of Inwyt (E. E. T. S.), p. 39. The Master had rather diffame hym selfe for hys teachyng than not shame his Scholer for his learnyng. Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 78. I am no breeching scholar in the schools; I'll not be tied to hours nor 'pointed times. Shak., T. of the S., iii. 1. 18. The same Asclepius, in the beginning of his first booke, calleth himselfe the scholler of Hermes. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 573. Bleys .. taught him magic; but the scholar ran Before the master, and so far, that Bleys Laid magic by. Tennyson, Coming of Arthur. 2. In English universities, formerly, any student; now, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives a portion of its revenues to furnish him with the means of prosecuting his studies during the academic curriculum; the holder of a scholarship. For ther he was not lik a cloysterer, With a thredbare cope as is a poure scoler . Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T. (ed. Morris), 1. 260. 3. One who learns anything: as, an apt scholar in the school of deceit. - 4. A learned man; one having great knowledge of literature or philology; an erudite person; specifically, a man or woman of letters. He was a scholar , and a ripe and good one. Shak., Hen. VIII., iv. 2. 51. He [King James] was indeed made up of two men, a witty, well-read scholar ,. and a nervous drivelling idiot. Macaulay , Lord Bacon. By scholar I mean a cultivator of liberal studies, a student of knowledge in its largest sense, not merely cla ical, not excluding what is exclusively called science in our days, but which was unknown when the title of scholar was first established. Sumner, Orations, I. 137. Canonical scholar. See canonical. - King's scholar, in England, a scholar in a school founded by royal charter, or a scholar supported by a royal endowment or foundation. Scholar's mate. See mate3.