magister

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Minister is but the diminutive of magister, and implies an obligation to render service.

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  1. Master; sir: an appellation given in the middle ages to persons of scientific or literary distinction, equivalent to the modern title of doctor. It is still used in Latin forms of various degrees. (See below.) In the early church it was given as a title to bishops and presbyters, in distinction from ministers or members of the lower orders. I'm Magister—yea, Doctor—hight. … I'm cleverer, true, than those fops of teachers, Doctors and Magistes. Scribes and Preachers. Goethe, Faust, i. 1 (tr. by B. Taylor).
  2. Artium Magister Master of Arts: a degree bestowed by universities and colleges, following the degree of Artium Baccalaureus or A. B. Also Magister Artium (M. A.). See
  3. Magister ceremoniarum Magister Disciplinæ an officer in the Church of Spain, about the filth century, appointed to take charge of those children who were dedicated to the church at an early age and placed in a bishop's household for instruction in morals and in the rules of the church. The officer who, had supervision of children educated in monasteries bore the same title.
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  • I m the teacher the magister-and you're the pupil. —  Time Scout
  • Greene and Crowder and the magister will be with us. —  THE WIDOW’S KISS
  • Isolde leaped forward at a nudge of her heels and the magister, moaning loudly, lumbered behind, clinging on for dear life, swaying in his saddle like a drunkard as his horse, infected by the urgency, rushed after the white mare. —  THE WIDOW’S KISS
  • “But Master Milton will do whatever is needful for your comfort.” The magister, with a sigh like air escaping from a cushion, collapsed onto one of the window seats and untied the lappets of his cap. —  THE WIDOW’S KISS
  • The magister was seated on the settle, his skinny shanks in their wrinkled black hose stretched to the fire. —  THE WIDOW’S KISS
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  1. from Latin magister, a master, chief, head, superior, director, teacher, etc.: hence ult. English master and mister, q. v.
 

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