pedagogue

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  1. noun A schoolteacher; an educator.
  2. noun One who instructs in a pedantic or dogmatic manner.

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  • When eighteen years old Theodore Parker was a fairly prosperous pedagogue, and at twenty had saved up enough money to go to Harvard Divinity School. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers, V9
  • He had been educated for a pedagogue, but had enlisted in the army, served abroad during the wars of Queen Anne's time, and risen to the rank of quartermaster of a regiment in Spain. —  Oliver Goldsmith
  • He's a pedagogue--by God, he's the Falerian pedagogue who sold his pupils to the Romans! —  The Long Roll
  • The traditions of the pedagogue were, however, not easily got rid of, for even when the parish had evidently got into the regular custom of using it for meetings, there was at least one person they had to reckon with who stood out stoutly for whatever privilege the original foundation gave him for continuing to teach the young idea how to shoot! —  Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King
  • The Poet-pedagogue, alias the Mad Dominie, with Bob Howie as his Second in Command, has chosen the Six stoutest striplings for his troop, and, at the head of that Sacred Band, offers battle to Us at the head of the whole School. —  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
 

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  1. Middle English pedagoge, from Old French, from Latin paedagōgus, slave who supervised children and took them to and from school, from Greek paidagōgos : paido-, boy; see pedo-1 + agōgos, leader (from agein, to lead; see ag- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Also sometimes (with reference to Greek usage) pædagogue; from French pédagogue = Spanish Portuguese Italian pedagogo, from Latin pædagogus, from Greek παιδαγωγός (see def. 1), from παῖς (παιδ-), a child, a boy or girl, from ἂγειν, lead, conduct, ἀγωγός, a guide or conductor. In def. 2, from Old French pedagoge, masculine, a schoolroom; cf. pedagogy.
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