loresman
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English loresman, equivalent to lore + -s- + man.
Noun[edit]
loresman (plural loresmen)
- An instructor or teacher of traditional wisdom.
- 1999, Lewis Turco, The book of literary terms:
- An academician or other learned person who is the student of a particular discipline; a loresman.
- 2010, Stanley Elkin, George Mills:
- A whittler of course, and volunteer fireman, a loresman of stone and all the materials of Nature, beech and maple, elm and ash, and all the secret, invisible grains of the human heart.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “loresman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From lores (“pieces of knowledge”) + mon (“man, person”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
loresman (plural loresmen)
- (rare) instructor, tutor, teacher; especially a religious one.
Descendants[edit]
- English: loresman
References[edit]
- “lōres-man, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-28.
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