scholaster

scholaster [CL schola+-aster] 1 (as adj.) of or for a master of a school. 1527 prebenda scolastria nuncupata per prebendarium preceptorem scole gramaticalis ‥ possidenda Form. S. Andr. I 203. 2 (as sb. m.) leader or master of a school. in choro sunt persone decanus ‥ thesaurarius, archischola [ed. PL: ~er] Beleth RDO 13. 27B; archidiaconus debet eos [ordinandos] scrutari in vita ‥ et sic eos tradere in manus archiscole. et ipse debet eos scrutari [ed. PL: in manus ~eris cujus munus est periculum facere] in litteris Ib. 134. 139B.