grammaticaster

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  1. A petty or pitiful grammarian; one who insists upon the minutest grammatical niceties. He tells thee true, my noble neophyte; my little grammaticaster, he does. B. Jonson, Poetaster, i. 1. I have not vexed language with the doubts, the remarks and eternal triflings of the French grammaticasters. Rymer.

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  1. from Middle Latin grammaticaster, a scribe, notary, from Latin grammaticus, a grammarian (see grammatic), + diminutive termination -aster.
 

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