PEDAGOGUE

n. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A slave who led his master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally.

2.
n.

A teacher of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young; a schoolmaster.

3.
n.

One who by teaching has become formal, positive, or pedantic in his ways; one who has the manner of a schoolmaster; a pedant. Goldsmith.

4.
v.

To play the pedagogue toward. [Obs.] Prior.


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