undermastern.
1. A subordinate instructor; esp. in schools, a master or teacher below the head-master.By Wyclif used to render Latin pædagogus.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > law > [noun] > before Christ
little masterc1384
undermastera1425
society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [noun] > assistant teacher
submasterc1450
usher1512
undermaster1561
under-usher1561
pedagogue?1566
underteacher1581
janitor1584
hypodidascal1625
under-doctora1649
assistant master1872
usheress1879
TA1969
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Gal. iii. 25 Aftir that bileue cam, we ben not now vndur the vndurmaistir.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Gal. iii. 24 And so the lawe was oure vndir~maister in Crist.
1561 in H. B. Wilson Hist. Merchant-Taylors' Sch. (1814) 14 The high maister..shall say to the ussher,..I have chosen you to be the chief ussher or under maister of this schoole.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Sottomaestro, an vnder master, an vsher of a schoole.
1709 Irish Act 8 Anne c. 3 §16 Several protestant school-masters..do entertain such persons..to be ushers, under-masters, or assistants.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1784 II. 509 [Johnson:] They were written by one Lewis, an under-master or usher of Westminster School.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 250 Masters and under-masters of choruses.
a1887 Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles (1888) I. i. iv. 21 [He] was earning his own living as an under-master in a school.
2. A subordinate director or supervisor. rare.
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society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > director > subordinate
undermaster1688
1688 London Gaz. No. 2322/3 The Under-Master of the Horse.
1703 London Gaz. No. 3914/4 The Earl of Marr served as Carver,..and Sir William Enstruther, Baronet, as under Master Houshold.
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