scholastic

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scholastic/skəˈlastɪk/

▶adjective

• 1 of or concerning schools and education.

• 2 relating to medieval scholasticism.

  ■ typical of scholasticism in being pedantic or overly subtle.

▶noun

• 1 Philosophy & Theology, historical an adherent of scholasticism; a schoolman.

• 2 (in the Roman Catholic Church) a member of a religious order, especially the Society of Jesus, who is between the novitiate and the priesthood.

– derivatives
scholastically adverb.

– origin C16: via L. from Gk skholastikos ‘studious’, from skholazein, from skholē (see school1).