scholastic
adjEtymology Borrowed from Middle French scholastique, from Latin scholasticus, from Ancient Greek σχολαστικός (skholastikós).
1
Of or relating to school; academic
- This award is for the greatest scholastic achievement by a graduating student.
2
Human sciences, Philosophy, Sciences 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 side1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:
3
Characterized by excessive subtlety, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
- Derived terms
- neo-scholastic, scholastically, scholasticide, scholasticism, scholastic Latin, unscholastic