SCHOOL'MASTER, noun [See Master]. 1. The man who presides over and teaches a school; a teacher, instructor or preceptor of a school. [Applied now only or chiefly to the teachers of primary school.] Adrian VI. was sometimes schoolmaster to Charles V. 2. He or that which disciplines, instructs and leads. The law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. Galatians 3:24.
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