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English Dictionary: 'scholastic by the DICT Development Group
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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 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}.
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