Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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 . - 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.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools.
- noun (R. C. Ch.) 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun philosophy a member of the medieval philosophical school of
scholasticism ; a medievalChristian Aristotelian - adjective Of or relating to
school ;academic - adjective philosophy Of or relating to the philosophical tradition of
scholasticism
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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As the term scholastic indicates, they developed their method in the schools.
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Isaac Husik 1907
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Today many girls play in scholastic chess tournaments around the country.
Archive 2009-06-01 Alyssa Gardina 2009
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Today many girls play in scholastic chess tournaments around the country.
Can Women Play Chess? Alyssa Gardina 2009
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The events which had led her to abandon what she herself called the scholastic profession for the much more lucrative work of private detection had long ago receded into the quite distant past.
Through the Wall Wentworth, Patricia 1950
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Nature and reality have no part in English scholastic life; "good form" and "sound scholarship" count for more than the heart of man.
Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight
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Having more of these types in scholastic pipeline depresses wages, and that’s exactly what is intended.
Matthew Yglesias » The Bitter Fruits of a Finance-Oriented Economy 2010
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I didn’t create the friggin’ world, but what if some racial groups of people * are* more intelligent on average than others, and that we can’t change this, and this largely accounts for their differences in scholastic and economic and civilizational achievement?
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I didn’t create the friggin’ world, but what if some racial groups of people * are* more intelligent on average than others, and that we can’t change this, and this largely accounts for their differences in scholastic and economic and civilizational achievement?
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Just called scholastic, it sounded like a madhouse in the background.
Think Progress » Path to 9/11 Writer Admits Controversial Scene Was ‘Improvised,’ ‘Accidents Occur’ 2006
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Greek philosophy, especially with that of Aristotle, was joined with a lively religious faith to produce the so called scholastic philosophy and theology.
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923
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