Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
SCHOOLMASTER
schoolmaster, Lutjanus apodus
(noun) food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters
headmaster, schoolmaster, master
(noun) presiding officer of a school
schoolmaster
(noun) any person (or institution) who acts as an educator
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
schoolmaster (plural schoolmasters)
A male teacher.
Male teacher in charge of a school, usually a small one.
Anything that teaches.
Verb
schoolmaster (third-person singular simple present schoolmasters, present participle schoolmastering, simple past and past participle schoolmastered)
To teach in the capacity of schoolmaster.
Source: Wiktionary
School"mas`ter, n.
1. The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school. Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad, -- a person less imposing, -- in the eyes of some, perhaps, insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad; and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array. Brougham.
2. One who, or that which, disciplines and directs. The law was our schoolmaster, to bring us into Christ. Gal. iii. 24.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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