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pedagogue, n.|ˈpɛdəgɒg| Forms: 4–6 pedagoge, 6–8 pedagog, 6–8 (9 in sense 1) pædagogue, 7 pædagog, 6– pedagogue. [a. OF. pedagoge (Oresme 14th c.), also pedagogue (14th c. in Littré), ad. L. pædagōgus, a. Gr. παιδαγωγός a trainer and teacher of boys, f. παῖς, παιδο- boy + ἀγωγός leader.] 1. A man having the oversight of a child or youth; an attendant who led a boy to school. Obs. exc. in reference to ancient times.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 191/1 He durst not for his pedagoge or his governour whyche was wyth hym. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 183 Alexander..had many paedagogues, nourturers and schoole maisters. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 206 The careles education of the children of noble men,..the sending them out of the countrey, under the charge of pædagogues suspect in religion. 1770Langhorne Plutarch (1879) I. 203/1 The office of a pedagogue of old was..to attend the children. a1855J. J. Blunt Right Use Early Fathers Ser. i. ii. (1869) 29 The Paedagogue of Clemens Alexandrinus contains a number of precepts which the Paedagogue (who gives a name to the treatise) is supposed to impart to his pupil as he takes him to school. †b. fig. (chiefly in reference to St. Paul's use of παιδαγωγός in Gal. iii. 24.)
1538Starkey England ii. iii. 206 The law..as Sayn Poule sayth dymely,..ys the pedagoge of Chryst. 1582N. T. (Rhem.) Gal. iii. 24 The Law was our Pedagogue in Christ. [Wyclif vndirmaister, Tindale scolemaster, 1611 Schoolemaster.] 1609Bible (Douay) 1 Kings Comm., S. Paul teaching that the whole law was a pedagogue guiding men to Christ. a1633Austin Medit. (1635) 268 The Law..is but the Pedagogue to the Gospel. 1653Binning Serm. (1845) 22. 2. A man whose occupation is the instruction of children or youths; a schoolmaster, teacher, preceptor. Now usually in a more or less contemptuous or hostile sense, with implication of pedantry, dogmatism, or severity.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VI. 7 Sigebertus..ordeyned scoles of lettrure.., and assignede pedagoges and maistres for children. 1494Fabyan Chron. v. cxxxiii. 117 [He] ordeygned ouer them scole masters and pedagoges. 1596Nashe Saffron-Walden Epistle Dedicat. 1613E. Hoby Counter-snarle 39 As if I were now to learne of such an Hipodidascalian Pedagogue to measure my phrase by his rule and line. 1660Pepys Diary 25 July, A Welsh schoolmaster, a good scholar but a very pedagogue. 1735Somerville Chase ii. 96 Cow'd by the ruling Rod, and haughty Frowns Of Pedagogues severe. 1875Gladstone Glean. VI. v. 145 Without..any assumption of the tone of the critic or the pedagogue. †b. An assistant teacher; an usher. Obs.
1563–7Buchanan Reform. St. Andros Wks. (1892) 11 The studentis..salbe..onder cure of the principal or sum regent or pedagogis lernit and of jugement, quha sal haif cure of thayr studie and diligens. 1613R. Cawdrey Table Alph. (ed. 3), Pædagogue, vsher to a Schoole-maister. †3. A schoolroom or school building. Obs.—1
1745Pococke Descr. East II. ii. 231 Another part [of the university of Halle] is what they call the pedagogue, which is for noblemen and gentlemen; there are six youths in each room, with a master over them. Hence ˈpedagogue v. trans., to instruct as a pedagogue; pedagoguery |ˈpɛdəgɒgrɪ|, (a) a pedagogic establishment; (b) the occupation of a pedagogue; pedagoguing |ˈpɛdəgɒgɪŋ| vbl. n., the acting as, or following the occupation of, a pedagogue (attrib. in quot.); pedagoguish |ˈpɛdəgɒgɪʃ| a., characteristic of a pedagogue.
1689Prior Epist. F. Shepherd 82 This may confine their younger Stiles, Whom Dryden *pedagogues at Will's. 1724Welsted Wks. (1787) 130 To pedagogue a man into this sort of knowledge.
1820Syd. Smith Ess. (ed. Beeton) 209 The children are..to be taken from their parents, and lodged in immense *pedagogueries. 1872F. Hall Recent Exempl. False Philol. 31 It is not because of any poverty of matter for remark in the headlong sciolism of the one and in the piddling pedagoguery of the other. 1883T. C. Haddon in W. R. W. Stephens Life Freeman (1895) I. 8 In a long life of pedagoguery.
1803A. Wilson in Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) I. 103 The same routine of *pedagoguing matters.
1830Blackw. Mag. XXVII. 482 A climax of *pedagoguish vanity. a1878Mozley Lect. i. (1883) 15 Those narrow and pedagoguish tactics of law. |