scholastic
adjective
- involving educational activity
noun
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Pronunciation: /skəˈlæstɪk/
adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French scholastique, from Latin scholasticus, from Ancient Greek σχολαστικός (skholastikós).
- Of or relating to school; academic
“This award is for the greatest scholastic achievement by a graduating student.”
- Of or relating to the philosophical tradition of scholasticism
“And hence it is that men, even when they are baffled and silenced in this scholastic way, are seldom or never convinced , and so brought over to the conquering side”
- Characterized by excessive subtlety, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French scholastique, from Latin scholasticus, from Ancient Greek σχολαστικός (skholastikós).
- A member of the medieval philosophical school of scholasticism; a medieval Christian Aristotelian.