Prose vs Grammatist - What's the difference?
prose | grammatist |
Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry.
* Milton
Language which evinces little imagination or animation; dull and commonplace discourse.
(Roman Catholicism) A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass.
to write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act I, Scene II, verses 189-190
(historical) A teacher of prose literature and letters in Ancient Greece.
* 1907' (Mar.), L. F. Anderson, "A Study of the Prototypes of the Modern Non-professional School among the Greeksand the Romans", ''The Pedagogical Seminary'', ' 14 (1): 1-38.
* 1909 , Lewis Flint Anderson, History of Common School Education , page 12
As nouns the difference between prose and grammatist
is that prose is language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry while grammatist is (historical) a teacher of prose literature and letters in ancient greece.As a verb prose
is to write or repeat in a dull, tedious, or prosy way.prose
English
(wikipedia prose)Noun
(en-noun)- Though known mostly for her prose , she also produced a small body of excellent poems.
- things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme
Antonyms
* poetry, verseDerived terms
* prose poem * purple proseVerb
- Pray, do not prose , good Ethelbert, but speak
- What is your purpose?
References
Anagrams
* ----grammatist
English
Noun
(en noun)- The grammatist , apparently, taught literature in so far as it was read while the citharist taught the poetry which was usually sung.
- The Athenian child's school education began with the study of letters under the grammatist .