(UNDER-1 6 a.)
1581. Mulcaster, Positions, xl. 230. Prouided that he … hasard not … his childrens profit vpon any absolute vnder-teacher.
1607. in Hist. Wakefield Gram. Sch. (1892), 67. A fitt underteacher or usher to be chosen.
1847. C. Brontë, Jane Eyre, I. v. 73. She looked indeed, what I afterwards found she really was, an under-teacher.
1878. B. Harte, Man on Beach, 75. At last … the underteachers … revealed themselves in their true colours.
