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One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster.

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  1. n. One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster.
  2. n. A person devoted to the study of literary trifles, esp. trifles belonging to the literature of a former age.
  3. n. A learned person; a literatus.
  4. 1. One who class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/teaches">teaches the class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/letters">letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster. Burke. 2. A person devoted to the study of literary trifles, esp. trifles belonging to the literature of a former age. That class of subjects which are interesting to the regular literator or black-letter " bibliomane," simply because they have once been interesting. De Quincey. 3. A learned person; a literatus. Sir W. Hamilton.
  5. n. One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster. n. A person devoted to the study of literary trifles, esp. trifles belonging to the literature of a former age. n. A learned person; a literatus.