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Word: pedagogue

Definition: teacher; CF. child leader


Sentences Containing 'pedagogue'

These accomplishments the richer citizens seem frequently to have acquired at home, by the assistance of some domestic pedagogue, who was, generally, either a slave or a freedman; and the poorer citizens in the schools of such masters as made a trade of teaching for hire.

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