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Quotation dates: 1531-1549, 1617-1650
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Gram(m)ariar, -iour, n. [f. Gram(m)ar n.] A grammarian; one skilled in grammar; a teacher or student of (Latin) grammar; spec. the professor of Humanity at King's College, Aberdeen.(a) 1531 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 48.
Maister Adam Mwre, maister of the Hie Scule, oblist him to mak the bairnys perfyte grammariarris within thre yeris 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 17/29.
In hope to eschaipt the detractione of inuyful gramariaris 1549 Ib. 160/2.
The gramariaris can fynd na greis of comparaison in ȝour gudnes c1650 Spalding I. 166.
The rest compeirit, sic as Mr. Robert Ogiluy, subprincipall, … Mr. Johne Lundie, humanist or gramariar c1650 Ib. 375.
The gramariaris nottheles had 20 dayis play(b) 1531 Bell. Boece I. 231.
Mony clerkis profound in every science, as … Donatus, gramariour, and preceptour to Sanct Ierome 1617 Acts IV. 576/1.
The canonist, ciuilist, mediciner and grammariour … of the said colledge
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