Scholastic

Word SCHOLASTIC
Character 10
Hyphenation scho las tic
Pronunciations /skəˈlæstɪk/

Definitions and meanings of "Scholastic"

What do we mean by scholastic?

Of or relating to schools; academic. adjective

Of, relating to, or characteristic of Scholasticism. adjective

Overly subtle or pedantic. adjective

A Scholastic philosopher or theologian. noun

A dogmatist or pedant. noun

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.

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. noun

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. adjective

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

See the Note under Jesuit. noun

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

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The word "scholastic" in example sentences

As the term scholastic indicates, they developed their method in the schools. ❋ Isaac Husik (1907)

Today many girls play in scholastic chess tournaments around the country. ❋ Alyssa Gardina (2009)

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. ❋ Wentworth, Patricia (1950)

Nature and reality have no part in English scholastic life; "good form" and "sound scholarship" count for more than the heart of man. ❋ George Ainslie Hight (N/A)

Having more of these types in scholastic pipeline depresses wages, and that’s exactly what is intended. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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? ❋ Unknown (2007)

Just called scholastic, it sounded like a madhouse in the background. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Greek philosophy, especially with that of Aristotle, was joined with a lively religious faith to produce the so called scholastic philosophy and theology. ❋ Carlton J. H. Hayes (1923)

The little scene is pleasant to think of, not too long out of date to recall the scholastic pastimes of to-day, though there is no Buchanan to produce plays for ❋ George Reid (1862)

In the middle ages, the labours of those great men who endeavoured to reconcile the system of thought which started from the data of pure reason, with that which started from the data of Roman theology, produced the system of thought which is known as scholastic philosophy; the alternative of surrender and suicide is exemplified by ❋ Thomas Henry Huxley (1860)

(which had originally been part of twelfth-century humanism) in the universities of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and it is hardly admissible to call scholastic philosophers, such as Thomas Aquinas, humanists, simply because they were indebted in their work to Greek philosophy. ❋ PETER HERDE (1968)

Ruth Wedgwood, a conservative legal scholar at Johns Hopkins University, said Mukasey had almost a "scholastic" approach to the law, and compared his nomination to President Gerald Ford's selection of the highly respected Edward Levi to be attorney general after the trauma of Watergate. ❋ Unknown (2007)

So, expect a sort of erudite, kind of scholastic look at some of these issues tonight, which is what all the candidates say they want. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I'm looking at how these glosses betray a tension between humanist and medieval or 'scholastic' tendencies in his work. ❋ Miglior Acque (2005)

Not to mention the fact that Pope B16 is an Augustinian, not a Thomist or "scholastic" by the way. ❋ Unknown (2005)

By labeling Catholicism as a rationalist 'scholastic' approach to faith it becomes much easier to hold on to all the old fundamentalist and evangelical Protestant prejudices against Catholicism, and it is holding on to that kind of baggage that is the reason for propounding the theme in the first place. ❋ Unknown (2005)

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