adjective. Of or relating to schools; academic.

adjective. Of, relating to, or characteristic of Scholasticism.

adjective. Overly subtle or pedantic.

noun. A Scholastic philosopher or theologian.

noun. A dogmatist or pedant.

Pertaining to or suiting a scholar, school, or schools; like or characteristic of a scholar: as, a scholastic manner; scholastic phrases.

Of, pertaining to, or concerned with schooling or education; educational: as, a scholastic institution; a scholastic appointment.

Pertaining to or characteristic of scholasticism or the schoolmen; according to the methods of the Christian Aristotelians of the middle ages. See scholasticism.

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Coldly intellectual and unemotional; characterized by excessive intellectual subtlety or by punctilious and dogmatic distinctions; formal; pedantic: said especially of the discussion of religious truth.

noun. A student or studious person; a scholar.

noun. A schoolman; a Christian Aristotelian; one of those who taught in European schools from the eleventh century to the Reformation, who reposed ultimately upon authority for every philosophical proposition, and who wrote chiefly in the form of disputations, discussing the questions with an almost syllogistic stiffness: opposed to Biblicist.

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noun. One who deals with religious questions in the spirit of the medieval scholastics.

noun. A member of the third grade in the organization of the Jesuits.

noun. One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools.

noun. See the Note under Jesuit.

adjective. Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike.

adjective. Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the Middle Ages (see Schoolman).

adjective. Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.

noun. a member of the medieval philosophical school of scholasticism; a medieval Christian Aristotelian

adjective. Of or relating to school; academic

adjective. Of or relating to the philosophical tradition of scholasticism

adjective. of or relating to schools

noun. a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit

adjective. of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism

noun. a Scholastic philosopher or theologian

"As the term scholastic indicates, they developed their method in the schools."

scholastic realist  scholastic theology  

academic  scholar  

scholastically  scholasticism  

philosopher  

anaplastic  bombastic  desmoplastic  drastic  dynastic  

academic  aesthetic  biblical  classical  doctrinal  

Cyrenaic  Eleatic  Epicurean  Megarian  Stoic  

Jesuit  schoolman