Crossword clues for grammarian
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grammarian \Gram*ma"ri*an\, n. [Cf. F. grammairien.]
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One versed in grammar, or the construction of languages; a philologist.
Note: ``The term was used by the classic ancients as a term of honorable distinction for all who were considered learned in any art or faculty whatever.''
--Brande & C. One who writes on, or teaches, grammar.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"student of or writer on (Latin) grammar; philologist, etymologist;" in general use, "learned man," late 14c., from Old French gramairien (Modern French grammairien) "grammarian, wise man, person who knows Latin; magician," agent noun from grammaire (see grammar).
Wiktionary
n. A person who studies grammar
WordNet
n. a linguist who specializes in the study of grammar and syntax [syn: syntactician]
Wikipedia
Grammarian may refer to:
- Linguist, a scientist who studies language
- Grammarian (Greco-Roman world), a teacher in the second stage in the traditional education system
- Alexandrine grammarians, philologists and textual scholars in Hellenistic Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE
- Biblical grammarians, scholars who study the Bible and the Hebrew language
- Sanskrit grammarian, scholars who studied the grammar of Sanskrit
- Speculative grammarians or Modistae, a 13th and 14th century school of philosophy in northern France, Germany, Britain and Denmark
- Philologist, a scholar of literary criticism, history, and language
In the Greco-Roman world, the grammarian (or grammaticus) was responsible for the second stage in the traditional education system, after a boy had learned his basic Greek and Latin. The job of the grammarian was to teach the ancient poets such as Homer and Virgil, and the correct way of speaking before a boy moved on to study under the rhetor. Despite often humble origins, some grammarians went on to achieve elevated positions in Rome, though few enjoyed financial success.
Usage examples of "grammarian".
The temple sacristans showed it to Apion the grammarian, who reports the fact, but is very sceptical in the matter.
Ibn ad-Duraihim, but its beginnings are probably to be found in the intense and minute scrutiny of the Koran by whole schools of grammarians in Basra, Kufa, and Baghdad to elucidate its meanings.
It was a Bohemian, Mathurin Regnier, who was one of the last defenders of the bulwarks of poetry, assailed by the phalanx of rhetoricians and grammarians who declared Rabelais barbarous and Montaigne obscure.
Birgeli, otherwise known as Mulla Muhammad Ibn Pir Ali ul-Birkali, was equally great as a dogmatist and as a grammarian.
But when the inflectional form of language became so far advanced as to have its scholars and grammarians, they seem to have united in extirpating all such polysynthetical or polysyllabic monsters, as devouring invaders of the aboriginal forms.
If to throw off the shackles of Old World pedantry, and defy the paltry rules and examples of grammarians and rhetoricians, is the special province and the chartered privilege of the American writer, Timothy Dexter is the founder of a new school, which tramples under foot the conventionalities that hampered and subjugated the faculties of the poets, the dramatists, the historians, essayists, story-tellers, orators, of the worn-out races which have preceded the great American people.
Scholars, grammarians, wits, and poets were content to bury the lustre of their wisdom and the hard-won fruits of their toil in the winding-sheet of a dead language, that they might be numbered with the family of Cicero, and added to the pious train of Virgil.
We do not want our poetry from grammarians, nor our tales from philologists, nor our history from theorists.
The fashion of aspersing the birth and condition of an adversary seems to have lasted from the time of the Greek orators to the learned grammarians of the last age.
Of Boccaccio's early years we know nothing more than that his first preceptor was the Florentine grammarian, Giovanni da Strada, father of the poet Zanobi da Strada, and that, when he was about ten years old, he was bound apprentice to a merchant, with whom he spent the next six years at Paris, whence he returned to Florence with an inveterate repugnance to commerce.
Barbara had done graduate work in Middle English before the fighting, and was as precise a grammarian as any schoolmarm ever born.
Amrou was inclined to gratify the wish of the grammarian, but his rigid integrity refused to alienate the minutest object without the consent of the caliph.
A just apprehension that the grammarians might become more important than the theologians, engaged the council of Trent to fix the seal of their infallibility on all the books of Scripture contained in the Latin Vulgate, in the number of which the Apocalypse was fortunately included.