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ˈschool-house
1. A building appropriated for the use of a school; also, the dwelling-house provided by the school authorities for the use of the schoolmaster or schoolmistress, usually attached to or adjoining a school.
1429Nottingham Rec. II. 122 Unam domum vocatam ‘Scolehous’. 1523–4Rec. St. Mary at Hill 321 Paid for makyng clene of a chambre in the Abbottes yn for to be a skole howse for Northfolkes children. 1583Leg. Bp. St. Androis 40 in Satir. Poems Reform. xlv, Maitland, Melwill, and Matchevellous, Learned never mair knaifrie in a scholehous. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. x. 18 To haue her knight into her schoole-house plaste That of her heauenly learning he might taste. a1610Healey Cebes (1636) 156 It is an easie thing for one to be a deepe scholer, & yet bee as prone to drunkenness [etc.] as hee that neuer saw the inside of a school-house. 1673Essex Papers (Camden) I. 115 In the Diocesse of Raphoe there is a freeschoole..but there is noe publicke schoolhouse built there or elsewhere in the Diocesse. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. ix, But when, seated on the benches of the school-house, they began to con their lessons together, Reuben [etc.]. 1870Act 33 & 34 Vict. c. 75 §72 If the managers or teacher of any school refuse..to allow the inspector to inspect the schoolhouse or examine any scholar. 1875McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 45 Here are the school-house, play-ground, and teacher's dwelling.
b. transf. and fig.
c1440Jacob's Well xxii. 147 Þe tauerne is welle of glotonye, for it may be clepyd þe develys scolehous & þe deuelys chapel. 1541(title) Here begynneth a lytle boke named the Scole house of women. a1568R. Ascham Scholem. i. (Arb.) 62 Erasmus..saide wiselie that experience is the common scholehouse of foles, and ill men. 1607Hieron Wks. I. 252 He doth first traine them vp in the schoole⁓house of His church.
c. attrib.
c1440Alphabet of Tales 426 Hym happend se þe scole⁓howse dure oppyn. 1679First Cent. Hist. Springfield, Mass. (1898) I. 427 To Sam: Ely..for entertaining the schoole house raisers..1. 05. 00. 1841–4Emerson Ess., Love Wks. (Bohn) I. 73 The rude village boy teases the girls about the school-house door.
2. At some public schools, the name given to the headmaster's house. Also, the boys belonging to the ‘school-house’.
1857Hughes Tom Brown i. v, The long line of grey buildings, beginning with the chapel, and ending with the school-house, the residence of the head-master. Ibid., The School-house are being penned in their turn, and now the ball is behind their goal. 1887Spectator 25 June 859/2 When the sixth form, or the School House, played against the rest of the school. |