Dictionaries of the Scots Language
Dictionars o the Scots Leid

A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

Hide Quotations Hide Etymology

Abbreviations Cite this entry

About this entry:
First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Techar(e, Teichar, n. Also: techear, -(e)our, -er, (techerar), thechure, teichair, -eour, -er, teitchar, -ir, teychair, teach(e)ar, -er, -our, teatcher, tacher. [ME and e.m.E. techer (14th c.), techar (1538), teacher (1662); Tech(e v.¹] One who instructs, a teacher, also, specif., in a school or university.(a) a1400 Leg. S. ii 446.
A, Rowme, thu aucht blitht to be, That had sic techare to kene thé Cristis ewangell a1400 Leg. S. xl 98.
Thechure c1420 Wynt. viii 3443 (W).
Dene William of Dalgarnaw … Wes his techour 1456 Hay I 16/23.
Fals prechouris and techouris of errouris c1520-c1535 Nisbet Matth. xxii 35.
[A Pharisee], a techer of the law 1524 Holyrood Chart. 257.
Maister Dauid Vocat principale maister and techour of our grammar scule 1533 Gau 15/2.
Elders, techours and leirfaders c1545 St. A. Univ. Rec. xxi.
[The University of St. Andrews] is … destitute bayth of rederris, techarris and auditouris 1549 Lamb Resonyng 45/9.
Freris, prestis, prechouris and techeraris of spirituale jurisdictioun 1551 Hamilton Cat. 3.
The haly spreit quhilk is ane daily techeour … of the hail … kirk c1552 Lynd. Mon. 253.
Off creuell Paule, he maid ane cunnyng techeour c1552 Lynd. Mon. 4490.
Christ thocht na schame to be ane precheour, And tyll all peple of trewth ane techeour 1565–6 Reg. Privy S. V ii 15/2.
Schir James Castellaw … maister and techear of sex bairnis quhilkis singis within the said chapell riall 1575 Glasgow Burgesses 3.
Thomas Craig, techear of the new kirk schule(b) 1540 Lynd. Sat. 3875 (Ch.).
Ignorant preists … Quhair throch of teicheouris the heich dignitie Is vilipendit 1561 Q. Kennedy Compendious Ressonyng (ed.) 177/24 (G).
Lorde and faythtfull teychair off verite 1569 Reg. Privy S. VI 131/1.
Instructar and teichar of the youth within the burgh of Dingwall 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 94.
A fals teichair … a raiser of chismes 1558-66 Knox II 146.
The gaynsayers and teichers of mennis inventiouns c1590 J. Stewart 248 § 194.
Teitchir 1600-1610 Melvill 260.
Teitchars(c) c1520-c1535 Nisbet I 11.
Teacharis 1540 Lynd. Sat. 2900 (Ch.).
Ane bischops office is for to be ane preichour, And of the law of God ane publick teachour 1597 Acts IV 148/1.
Libertie … to found ane uniuersitie [at Fraserburgh], big and mak collegis, place maisteris and teachearis 1600-1610 Melvill 104.
Teatchers 1627 Rep. Parishes 55.
The teatcher of the grammer had twentie foure merkis and the teatcher of the mwsick als mutche 1699 Forrester Bishops Claim iii 45.
In lapping them up under the name of teachers, who so little concern themselves in that work(d) 1572 St. A. Kirk S. 370.
Na persoun sal remain wytht us electit eldaris and deaconis at voting wythtout they be tacheris wythtin our congregatioun

b. That which instructs, a means of instruction. c1490 Porteous Noblenes 41 (Ch. & M.).
Larges … is … the techer of all vertuis in this warlde