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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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}. | |
