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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scholastic \Scho*las"tic\, n.
1. One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the
schools. --Milton.
2. (R. C. Ch.) See the Note under {Jesuit}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scholastic \Scho*las"tic\, a. [L. scholasticus Gr ?, fr ? to
have leisure, to give lectures, to keep a school, from ?
leisure, a lecture, a school: cf F. scholastique
scolastique See {School}.]
1. Pertaining to or suiting, a scholar, a school, or
schools; scholarlike; as scholastic manners or pride;
scholastic learning. --Sir K. Digby
2. Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the
Middle Ages (see {Schoolman}); as scholastic divinity or
theology; scholastic philosophy. --Locke.
3. Hence characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly
minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
scholastic
adj 1: of or relating to schools; "scholastic year"
2: of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of
scholasticism; "scholastic philosophy"
n : a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book
learning than they merit [syn: {pedant}, {bookworm}]
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