loresman

From Middle English loresman, equivalent to lore +‎ -s- +‎ man.

loresman (plural loresmen)

1. (now rare) 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.

• “loresman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Monreals, Salmeron, almoners, normales, salmoner

• lores-man, lorys-mane

From lores (“pieces of knowledge”) +‎ man (“man, person”).

• (Early Middle English) IPA^(key): /ˈlaːrɛsman/
• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔːr(ɛ)sman/

loresman (plural loresmen)

1. (rare) instructor, tutor, teacher; especially a religious one.

• English: loresman

• “lōres-man, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-28.