Scholastic
[skə'læstɪk]
Definition
(noun.) a Scholastic philosopher or theologian.
(adj.) of or relating to schools; 'scholastic year' .
(adj.) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism; 'scholastic philosophy' .
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Definition
(a.) Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the Middle Ages (see Schoolman); as, scholastic divinity or theology; scholastic philosophy.
(a.) Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
(n.) One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools.
(n.) See the Note under Jesuit.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Academic, literary, lettered, bookish.[2]. Pedantic, formal, after the manner of the schoolmen.
n. Schoolman.
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Examples
- If the same scholastic method is in force there, all that would be needed to crush socialism is to show its dogmatic inconsistencies. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It was at the Port Huron public school that Edison received all the regular scholastic instruction he ever enjoyed--just three months. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Childers (rather deeply lined in the jaws by daylight), and the Little Wonder of Scholastic Equitation, and in a word, all the company. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Night after night his disappointment is acute, but hope springs eternal in the scholastic breast, and he follows me again to-morrow. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The doctrine of formal discipline in education is the natural counterpart of the scholastic method. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Presently the dissensions of the schools let in the superstitions and prejudices of the city mob to scholastic affairs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Amid these jarring events Yeobright felt one thing to be indispensable--that he should speedily make some show of progress in his scholastic plans. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He made wonderful advances in scholastic learning. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I dare say the great scholastic himself would have been flattered to have his portrait asked for. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But justification is found in the fact that such emphasis is a means of getting us away from an unduly scholastic and formal notion of education. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- At the time when scholastic method developed, it had relevancy to social conditions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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