Someone who teaches in a school or is the principal or director of a school.
"Tyrannical, impatient, hair-brain schoolmasters, aridi magistri [dry masters], as Fabius terms them, Ajaces flagelliferi [flogging bullies], are in this kind as bad as hangmen and executioners; they make many children endure a martyrdom all the while they are at school; with bad diet, if they board in their houses, too much severity and ill-usage, they quite pervert their temperature of body and mind: still chiding, railing, frowning, lashing, tasking, keeping, that they are fracti animis, moped many times, weary of their lives, nimia severitate deficiunt et desperant [through harsh treatment they become dull and dispirited], and think no slavery in the world (as once I did myself) like to that of a grammar scholar."
Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621).
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