Meaning of SCHOLASTIC in English

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Meaning of SCHOLASTIC in English

• Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.
• Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the Middle Ages (see Schoolman); as, scholastic divinity or theology; scholastic philosophy.
• Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
• One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools.
• See the Note under Jesuit.

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