1.
[syn: pedant, bookworm, scholastic]
2. a Scholastic philosopher or theologian;
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. of or relating to schools;
- Example: "scholastic year"
2. of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism;
- Example: "scholastic philosophy"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Scholastic \Scho*las"tic\, a. [L. scholasticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to
have leisure, to give lectures, to keep a school, from ?
leisure, a lecture, a school: cf. F. scholastique,
scolastique. See School.]
1. Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or
schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride;
scholastic learning. --Sir K. Digby.
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2. Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the
Middle Ages (see Schoolman); as, scholastic divinity or
theology; scholastic philosophy. --Locke.
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3. Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly
minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Scholastic \Scho*las"tic\, n.
1. One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the
schools. --Milton.
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2. (R. C. Ch.) See the Note under Jesuit.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
scholastic
adj 1: of or relating to schools; "scholastic year"
2: of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of
scholasticism; "scholastic philosophy"
n 1: a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book
learning than they merit [syn: pedant, bookworm,
scholastic]
2: a Scholastic philosopher or theologian
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
141 Moby Thesaurus words for "scholastic":
Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Megarian, Stoic, abstruse, academic,
academician, animist, animistic, atomistic, bibliophagic,
bluestocking, book-fed, book-learned, book-loving, book-minded,
book-read, book-wise, bookish, bookman, booky, canonist, civilized,
classicist, classroom, clerk, collegiate, colossus of knowledge,
conversant, cosmotheistic, cross-disciplinary, cultivated,
cultured, deep, devoted to studies, diligent, divine,
divinity student, donnish, dryasdust, eclectic, educated,
empirical, encyclopedic, erudite, eudaemonistic, existential,
extramural, formal, genius, giant of learning, graduate,
graduate-professional, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, humanist,
humanistic, idealistic, inkhorn, instrumentalist,
interdisciplinary, interscholastic, intramural, learned,
learned clerk, learned man, lettered, literary, literary man,
literate, litterateur, lover of learning, man of learning,
man of letters, mandarin, mastermind, materialistic, mechanistic,
metaphysical, mine of information, monistic, naturalistic,
nominalist, owlish, panlogistical, pansophic, pantheistic,
pedagogical, pedantic, philologist, philologue, philomath,
philosophe, philosopher, polyhistor, polyhistoric, polymath,
polymathic, positivist, positivistic, postgraduate, pragmatic,
pragmatist, preschool, professional, professorial, profound,
pundit, rabbinic, rationalistic, realist, realistic, savant,
scholar, scholarly, school, schoolish, schoolman, sensationalistic,
student, studious, syncretistic, theistic, theologian, theological,
theologician, theologist, theologizer, theologue,
transcendentalist, transcendentalistic, university, utilitarian,
versed, vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic,
walking encyclopedia, wise