scholasticadj.n.

Brit.

/skəˈlastɪk/,

/skɒˈlastɪk/, U.S.

/skəˈlæstɪk/

Forms: late Middle English scolastyke, late Middle English–1500s scolastyk, 1500s–1600s scholastique, 1600s scholasticke, 1600s scholastike, 1600s schollasticke, 1600s–1700s scholastick, 1600s– scholastic; also Scottish pre-1700 scholasticke, pre-1700 scholastik, pre-1700 scholestic, pre-1700 scolastic, pre-1700 scolastick, pre-1700 scolastik.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French scholastique; Latin scholasticus.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French scolastique, scholastique (French scholastique ) (adjective) of or relating to schools or universities (end of the 13th cent. in Old French, earliest with reference to the Historia Scholastica of Petrus Comestor), of or relating to the theological and philosophical teaching of medieval academic institutions (1541; 1580 with depreciative connotations of pedantry or abstruseness), (noun) medieval schoolman (1541), person who devotes himself or herself only to academic studies (mid 16th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin scholasticus (also scolasticus) of or appropriate to a school of rhetoric, (noun) student or teacher at a school of rhetoric, (in humorous use) scholar (2nd cent. a.d.), in post-classical Latin also (adjective) expert in (4th cent.), eloquent, cultivated (5th cent.), of or relating to the schoolmen (from 15th cent. in British sources), (noun) educated person, intellectual (4th cent. in Jerome), advocate (4th or 5th cent. in Augustine), schoolman (from 13th cent. in British sources) < ancient Greek σχολαστικός enjoying leisure, in Hellenistic Greek also (adjective) studious, learned, academic, theoretical, (noun) learned man, scholar, pedant, advocate < σχολαστής person of leisure ( < σχολάζειν to be at leisure, to devote oneself to, in Hellenistic Greek also to devote oneself to learning, to study, attend lectures, to give lectures ( < σχολή leisure: see school n.¹) + -τής , suffix forming agent nouns) + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare earlier scholastical adj.Compare Catalan escolàstic (14th cent. as adjective, also as noun), Spanish escolástico (late 14th cent. as adjective, 15th cent. as noun), Portuguese escolástico (14th cent. as adjective, also as noun), Italian scolastico (late 16th cent. as noun, late 17th cent. as adjective).

A. adj.

1. Of or relating to the theological and philosophical teaching of medieval academic institutions or the ‘schools’ (school n.¹ 12a), based upon the authority of the Bible and Christian Fathers and the logic and philosophy of Aristotle and his commentators; employing or exhibiting the methods of learning used in medieval academic institutions, characterized by the use of dialectical reasoning, subtle argument, and disputation. Cf. scholasticism n. 1. Scholastic doctrines and methods dominated European philosophy from the 11th to the 15th cent., esp. during the 13th and early 14th cent., when the leading scholastic philosophers included Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham. By the 15th cent., humanists and reformers had begun to criticize the teaching of the medieval philosophers, and the term scholastic was often used with depreciative connotations by Renaissance humanists, who ridiculed the doctrines and methods of the medieval ‘schools’ for a perceived dependence upon quibbling argument and needless distinctions. In early use, therefore, there is some overlap between this sense and the depreciative use at sense A. 4.In quot. 1483 used in a translation of the post-classical Latin title of Petrus Comestor's Historia Scholastica (12th cent.), a narrative of biblical history.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > teaching > [adjective] > other methods of teaching

scholastical?a1475

scholastic1483

maieutic1656

maieutical1678

demonstrative1805

peripatetic1890

free activity1929

hypnopaedic1932

show-and-tell1945

audio-active1958

programmed1958

audio-lingual1959

mother tongue1960

immersion1965

distance-based1979

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. clxxxvij/2 It is said in thystorye scolastyke that dauyd the kyng wyllyng to encrece & make more the seruyse of god, Instytued xxiiij bysshoppes or hyghe preestys.

1558 Q. Kennedy Compendius Tractiue vii. sig. Gvii Thair wes diuersitie in opinioun amangis y^e ald doctores..& als amangis sum scolastick men laitlie sen the doctores tyme.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 13 This man [sc. Duns Scotus]..meruellouslie amplifiet and helpet the scholastik Theologie.

1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 2 I deem it to be an old errour of universities not yet well recover'd from the Scholastick grosnesse of barbarous ages, that..they present their..novices at first comming with the most intellective abstractions of Logick & metaphysicks.

1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III 155 The first Essential part of Scholastic Divinitie..is its Forme or Mode of Philophising [sic].

1712 S. Clarke Scripture-doctrine Trinity ii. 349 The Scholastick Writers in later Ages, have generally put this matter upon another Foot.

1770 E. Burke Thoughts Present Discontents 77 I remember an old scholastic aphorism, which says, ‘that the man who lives wholly detached from others, must be either an angel or a devil’.

1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 329/2 Those of the former class [of active mind] sought for satisfaction in the scholastic philosophy... It was for the most part a revival of the philosophy of Aristotle.

1884 A. R. Pennington Wiclif iii. 120 He is answering in a scholastic manner those who had attacked him with the weapons of the schoolmen.

1944 E. S. Morgan Puritan Family i. 12 Puritan ministers..were as ready as the Scholastic theologians to juggle with being and essence and substance, with constant and inconstant natures, with elements and elementaries.

2014 Rev. Metaphysics 66 417 Greek and scholastic philosophy became entranced with rationalist categories as abstractions..divorced from lived existence.

2. Of or relating to schools, universities, or education in general; academic, educational.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > place of education > school > [adjective]

scholastic1599

scholicala1656

schooly1882

1599 A. Hume Hymnes 56 As Cicero of Iulius Caesar sayis Euen in his time, gouernement, and dayis, Quhilk easily excells all vther Kings, In learning, spreit, and all scholasticke things.

1656 T. Cobbet Disc. Honour due from Children to Parents vii. 227 Such capacity, and dispositions in youth for Scholastick indouments, and imployments, they also are Talents of God bestowed upon children.

1691 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 241 The queen has sent a letter to the vicechanceller of Cambridge, to have an account what persons in any scholastick preferments have not taken the oaths.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 36 The Bishop of Lincoln..a man of great wit, and good Scholastick learning.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 137. ⁋11 It is too common for those who have been bred to the scholastick profession..to disregard every other qualification.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1759 I. 191 (note) Mr. Muller, of Woolwich Academy, the scholastick father of all the great engineers which this country has employed for forty years.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 297 Carstairs..united great scholastic attainments with great aptitude for civil business.

1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood iii. 14 A dainty room, with nothing more directly scholastic in it than a terrestrial and a celestial globe.

1917 Nation 22 Feb. 219/2 Each Emperor received, and in turn gave to his heirs, a rigorous scholastic training.

1931 Fortune Aug. 42/1 Traditionally the outstanding New York girls' school. Strict moral and scholastic standards.

2013 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 Sept. a24 When our children see that we value their scholastic achievements as much as (or more than) we value their weekend victories on the football field, we will have taken a step in the right direction.

†3. Of a person: having the characteristics of a scholar, esp. possessing academic learning or theoretical knowledge but lacking practical skills or worldly experience. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > learner > [adjective] > one who studies

scholastic1641

studental1660

studential1822

oppidan1933

1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 74 Then shall the Nobles possesse all the Dignities and Offices of temporall honour to themselves, sole Lords without the improper mixture of Scholastick, and pusillanimous upstarts.

1661 Marquis of Argyll Instr. to Son 139 Though among scholastick men we find couragious and refined polite spirits, yet Princes take not usually such as they intend for their service from the schools though they be knowing and able persons; for 'tis business and action that strengthens the brain, while contemplation weakneth it.

4. Befitting or characteristic of university learning or academic discussion; following traditional academic methods, esp. disputation; (depreciative) pedantic, impractical, theoretical, needlessly subtle or abstruse.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [adjective]

scholastical?1526

schoolish1549

pedantical1592

pen and inkhornc1598

pedanta1612

pedantic1631

scholastic1700

instinctless1947

nitpicky1962

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [adjective]

fallacious?1473

sophistical1483

Jesuitish1602

sophistic1605

Jesuitical1613

Jesuitic1640

casuistical1648

specious1651

casuistic1660

casual1672

fine-drawn1681

scholastic1700

scholasticated1772

verbalistic1879

1700 R. Johnson Praxis Medicinæ Reformata To Rdr. sig. A2 Diseases cannot be cured by Scholastick Twattle, or Fine Words, but by good Remedies.

1779 S. Johnson Cowley in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets I. 53 The following lines of Donne..have something in them too scholastick.

1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 266 It [sc. Sidney's Arcadia] is not romantic, but scholastic; not poetry, but casuistry.

1846 Prospective Rev. 2 56 The perspicuous good sense and scholastic precision of Whately.

1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue v. 217 The modifying words especially..look very much like scholastic products.

1931 Rep. Proc. 5th Internat. Bot. Congr. 1930 302 To ask how many carpels are involved in such a gynoeceum was a purely scholastic question, which could never receive an answer, because no answer existed.

1975 Amer. Jrnl. Psychotherapy 29 272 This biting critic of petty scholastic wrangling, now has to admit that his own work has become the subject of the same wrangling.

2016 Guardian (Nexis) 21 Feb. His third novel..was written to strict literary formulae and contained more scholastic hair-splitting and arcane erudition.

B. n.

1. A representative or adherent of the theological and philosophical teaching of medieval academic institutions or the ‘schools’ (school n.¹ 12a), based upon the authority of the Bible and Christian Fathers and the logic and philosophy of Aristotle and his commentators; a philosopher or theologian using the methods of medieval academic institutions, characterized by the use of dialectical reasoning, subtle argument, and disputation; a schoolman or a disciple of the schoolmen (schoolman n. 3). Now historical.In early use sometimes with depreciative connotations: see note at sense A. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > scholasticism > [noun] > adherent of

questionary1435

questionist1528

school doctor1528

schoolman1528

school divine1536

summist1536

scholastical1565

scholastic1604

1604 tr. J. Le Vager in Voluntarie Conversion 6 Rats, Mice, & dogs may eate the bodie of Christ: as they teach in their Cautelae Missae, and S. Thomas, and other Scholasticks, beside a thousand other blasphemies.

1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) To Parl. sig. A4 Doubt not, worthy Senators to vindicate the sacred honour and judgment of Moses your predecessor, from the shallow commenting of Scholasticks and Canonists.

?1700 A. Lortie Script.-terms Church-union xii. 78 For indeed is it likely, that, Christianity for many Ages having been altered in many weighty Points, the present Trinitarian..System has all this while remained the same that it was from the beginning, and by the hands of the Platonists and Scholasticks has passed pure and undefiled?

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 97 Aristotle, Gassendus, Des Cartes, with the numerous family of the scholastics, all ran into the same trackless error.

1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages II. ix. 575 It was not only a knowledge of Aristotle that the scholastics of Europe derived.

1875 H. W. Longfellow Monte Cassino in Masque of Pandora 111 In its streets The Angelic Doctor as a school-boy played, And dreamed perhaps the dreams, that he repeats In ponderous folios for scholastics made.

1907 Academy 30 Nov. 184/2 In the year 1907..one must hesitate to discuss Antonio Rosmini—the last of the Scholastics.

1934 Science 6 July 5/1 The great value of this [Cartesian] revolution lay in the fact that men were freed by it of the authority of the Aristotelian scholastics.

2014 Sc. Express (Nexis) 15 June 38 Historians argue whether Gallipoli was a good idea with much the same intensity as Medieval Scholastics debated the number of angels that could fit on a pin-head.

†2. A scholar or highly educated person; (occasionally) a person who possesses academic learning or theoretical knowledge but lacks practical skills or worldly experience. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun]

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larewc900

learnerc900

witec900

wise manOE

leredc1154

masterc1225

readera1387

artificer1449

man of science1482

rabbi1527

rabbin1531

worthy1567

artsmanc1574

philologer1588

artist1592

virtuoso1613

sophist1614

fulla1616

scholastica1633

philologist1638

gnostic1641

scholarian1647

pundit1661

scientman1661

savant1719

ollamh1723

maulvi1776

pandect1791

Sabora1797

erudit1800

mallam1829

Gelehrter1836

erudite1865

walking encyclopaedia1868

Einstein1942

a1633 G. More Holy Pract. Devine Lover (1657) Ep. Ded. They perswade themselues..that hee hath taught you more high, and euident truths,..then all the subtile Scholasticks, and suttle politicks put together could haue done.

1645 R. Overton Sacred Decretall 6 If Preaching should not be reduc'd and reconfin'd in the antient bounds of the Clergie, the Mechanicks would out-strip the Scholasticks in Teaching, and Knowledge would so encrease and multiply among the Common People.

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 244. ⁋1 The Town-Orators..despise all Men as unexperienced Scholasticks who wait for an Occasion before they speak.

1742 D. Hume Ess. Moral & Polit. II. ix. 143 I..am in Danger, if my Answer be too rigid and severe, of passing for a Pedant and Scholastic.

1863 N. A. Davis Campaign from Texas to Maryland 9 Men of all trades and professions—attorneys, doctors, merchants, farmers, mechanics, editors, scholastics, &c.

3. Roman Catholic Church. A Jesuit in training for ordination to the priesthood.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > seminary > [noun] > Jesuit, for novices > person attending

scholastic1706

Tertian Father1855

1706 Hist. Wks. Learned July 445 This Society consists of three Families, viz. the Novices, the Scholasticks, and the Professed. When they arrive at the last Degree, they solemnly take the three Monastick Vows.

1824 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 175 This Society now consists of twenty six fathers, ten scholastics in theology, seventeen scholarships in philosophy, rhetoric, and belles lettres, fourteen scholastics in the noviciate, twenty two lay brothers out of, and four lay brothers in, the noviciate.

1876 J. Morris Let. in J. H. Pollen Life & Lett. J. Morris (1896) 181 Three different communities under one Rector—the novices, scholastics, and Tertian Fathers.

1881 Memorials Stonyhurst College iii. 21 The English Jesuits had another College in Belgium, at Liége. This was for the higher studies of their own scholastics.

1934 Bks. Abroad 8 138/1 The Jesuits have a custom of selecting certain of their young scholastics to receive their training, in part at least, outside their own country.

2006 J. Martin My Life with Saints (2007) xiii. 271 Along with our studies, we scholastics..were required to work from ten to fifteen hours a week in a ministry of our choosing.

†4. In medieval and early modern Europe: a member of the clergy who was the head of an ecclesiastical school attached to a cathedral, monastery, or collegiate church, and who (sometimes) also oversaw all schools in the city or diocese. Cf. scholaster n. Obsolete. historical. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > council > cathedral dignitaries > [noun] > scholaster

scholaster1694

scholastic1777

scoloc1852

1777 R. Henry Hist. Great Brit. III. 442 These teachers of the cathedral schools were called The scholastics of the diocess; and all the youth in it who were designed for the church, were intitled to the benefit of their instructions.

1844 G. L. Craik Sketches Hist. Lit. & Learning Eng. I. 49 In 1179 it was ordered..that in every cathedral should be appointed and maintained a head teacher, or scholastic.

†5. In the Byzantine Empire: an advocate. Obsolete. historical. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > counsellor, barrister, or advocate > advocate in Byzantine Empire

scholastic1846

1846 Penny Cycl. Suppl. II. 558/1 Socrates, the ecclesiastical historian..followed the profession of scholastic or advocate.

†6. An artist who adheres to the methods or principles of an academy of arts, esp. one who paints in a conventional and formal way. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > [noun] > artist > in specific style

pictorialist1839

conventionalist1846

polychromatist1854

nudist1866

scholastic1892

archaicist1957

assemblagist1963

eroticist1965

conceptualist1970

orientalist1983

1892 Daily News 30 Apr. 6/2 Idealists and naturalists, scholastics and impressionists, were necessarily exclusive when each was struggling for the ascendant, and claiming for its school the possession of the truth.

7. U.S. In plural. Academic studies; schoolwork. Cf. academic n. 6.Frequently paired or contrasted with athletics when describing elements of school or university life.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > study > [noun]

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1895 Washington Post 13 Feb. 8/3 Prof. Sloane..takes occasion to pledge Princeton's supremacy in athletics as well as scholastics.

1964 Michiganensian 67 Beta Theta Pi, Michigan's first fraternity, prides itself on the superior performance in scholastics, athletics, and campus leadership positions which is characteristic of its members.

2013 M. Tyson in N.Y. Mag. 28 Oct. 23/2 I think I'm the stupidest guy in the world when it comes to scholastics, but I got my honor-roll star.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	scholastic
释义	scholasticadj.n. Brit. /skəˈlastɪk/, /skɒˈlastɪk/, U.S. /skəˈlæstɪk/ Forms: late Middle English scolastyke, late Middle English–1500s scolastyk, 1500s–1600s scholastique, 1600s scholasticke, 1600s scholastike, 1600s schollasticke, 1600s–1700s scholastick, 1600s– scholastic; also Scottish pre-1700 scholasticke, pre-1700 scholastik, pre-1700 scholestic, pre-1700 scolastic, pre-1700 scolastick, pre-1700 scolastik. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French scholastique; Latin scholasticus. Etymology: < (i) Middle French scolastique, scholastique (French scholastique ) (adjective) of or relating to schools or universities (end of the 13th cent. in Old French, earliest with reference to the Historia Scholastica of Petrus Comestor), of or relating to the theological and philosophical teaching of medieval academic institutions (1541; 1580 with depreciative connotations of pedantry or abstruseness), (noun) medieval schoolman (1541), person who devotes himself or herself only to academic studies (mid 16th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin scholasticus (also scolasticus) of or appropriate to a school of rhetoric, (noun) student or teacher at a school of rhetoric, (in humorous use) scholar (2nd cent. a.d.), in post-classical Latin also (adjective) expert in (4th cent.), eloquent, cultivated (5th cent.), of or relating to the schoolmen (from 15th cent. in British sources), (noun) educated person, intellectual (4th cent. in Jerome), advocate (4th or 5th cent. in Augustine), schoolman (from 13th cent. in British sources) < ancient Greek σχολαστικός enjoying leisure, in Hellenistic Greek also (adjective) studious, learned, academic, theoretical, (noun) learned man, scholar, pedant, advocate < σχολαστής person of leisure ( < σχολάζειν to be at leisure, to devote oneself to, in Hellenistic Greek also to devote oneself to learning, to study, attend lectures, to give lectures ( < σχολή leisure: see school n.¹) + -τής , suffix forming agent nouns) + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare earlier scholastical adj.Compare Catalan escolàstic (14th cent. as adjective, also as noun), Spanish escolástico (late 14th cent. as adjective, 15th cent. as noun), Portuguese escolástico (14th cent. as adjective, also as noun), Italian scolastico (late 16th cent. as noun, late 17th cent. as adjective). A. adj. 1. Of or relating to the theological and philosophical teaching of medieval academic institutions or the ‘schools’ (school n.¹ 12a), based upon the authority of the Bible and Christian Fathers and the logic and philosophy of Aristotle and his commentators; employing or exhibiting the methods of learning used in medieval academic institutions, characterized by the use of dialectical reasoning, subtle argument, and disputation. Cf. scholasticism n. 1. Scholastic doctrines and methods dominated European philosophy from the 11th to the 15th cent., esp. during the 13th and early 14th cent., when the leading scholastic philosophers included Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham. By the 15th cent., humanists and reformers had begun to criticize the teaching of the medieval philosophers, and the term scholastic was often used with depreciative connotations by Renaissance humanists, who ridiculed the doctrines and methods of the medieval ‘schools’ for a perceived dependence upon quibbling argument and needless distinctions. In early use, therefore, there is some overlap between this sense and the depreciative use at sense A. 4.In quot. 1483 used in a translation of the post-classical Latin title of Petrus Comestor's Historia Scholastica (12th cent.), a narrative of biblical history. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > [adjective] > other methods of teaching scholastical?a1475 scholastic1483 maieutic1656 maieutical1678 demonstrative1805 peripatetic1890 free activity1929 hypnopaedic1932 show-and-tell1945 audio-active1958 programmed1958 audio-lingual1959 mother tongue1960 immersion1965 distance-based1979 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. clxxxvij/2 It is said in thystorye scolastyke that dauyd the kyng wyllyng to encrece & make more the seruyse of god, Instytued xxiiij bysshoppes or hyghe preestys. 1558 Q. Kennedy Compendius Tractiue vii. sig. Gvii Thair wes diuersitie in opinioun amangis y^e ald doctores..& als amangis sum scolastick men laitlie sen the doctores tyme. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 13 This man [sc. Duns Scotus]..meruellouslie amplifiet and helpet the scholastik Theologie. 1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 2 I deem it to be an old errour of universities not yet well recover'd from the Scholastick grosnesse of barbarous ages, that..they present their..novices at first comming with the most intellective abstractions of Logick & metaphysicks. 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III 155 The first Essential part of Scholastic Divinitie..is its Forme or Mode of Philophising [sic]. 1712 S. Clarke Scripture-doctrine Trinity ii. 349 The Scholastick Writers in later Ages, have generally put this matter upon another Foot. 1770 E. Burke Thoughts Present Discontents 77 I remember an old scholastic aphorism, which says, ‘that the man who lives wholly detached from others, must be either an angel or a devil’. 1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 329/2 Those of the former class [of active mind] sought for satisfaction in the scholastic philosophy... It was for the most part a revival of the philosophy of Aristotle. 1884 A. R. Pennington Wiclif iii. 120 He is answering in a scholastic manner those who had attacked him with the weapons of the schoolmen. 1944 E. S. Morgan Puritan Family i. 12 Puritan ministers..were as ready as the Scholastic theologians to juggle with being and essence and substance, with constant and inconstant natures, with elements and elementaries. 2014 Rev. Metaphysics 66 417 Greek and scholastic philosophy became entranced with rationalist categories as abstractions..divorced from lived existence. 2. Of or relating to schools, universities, or education in general; academic, educational. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [adjective] scholastic1599 scholicala1656 schooly1882 1599 A. Hume Hymnes 56 As Cicero of Iulius Caesar sayis Euen in his time, gouernement, and dayis, Quhilk easily excells all vther Kings, In learning, spreit, and all scholasticke things. 1656 T. Cobbet Disc. Honour due from Children to Parents vii. 227 Such capacity, and dispositions in youth for Scholastick indouments, and imployments, they also are Talents of God bestowed upon children. 1691 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 241 The queen has sent a letter to the vicechanceller of Cambridge, to have an account what persons in any scholastick preferments have not taken the oaths. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 36 The Bishop of Lincoln..a man of great wit, and good Scholastick learning. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 137. ⁋11 It is too common for those who have been bred to the scholastick profession..to disregard every other qualification. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1759 I. 191 (note) Mr. Muller, of Woolwich Academy, the scholastick father of all the great engineers which this country has employed for forty years. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 297 Carstairs..united great scholastic attainments with great aptitude for civil business. 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood iii. 14 A dainty room, with nothing more directly scholastic in it than a terrestrial and a celestial globe. 1917 Nation 22 Feb. 219/2 Each Emperor received, and in turn gave to his heirs, a rigorous scholastic training. 1931 Fortune Aug. 42/1 Traditionally the outstanding New York girls' school. Strict moral and scholastic standards. 2013 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 Sept. a24 When our children see that we value their scholastic achievements as much as (or more than) we value their weekend victories on the football field, we will have taken a step in the right direction. †3. Of a person: having the characteristics of a scholar, esp. possessing academic learning or theoretical knowledge but lacking practical skills or worldly experience. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > [adjective] > one who studies scholastic1641 studental1660 studential1822 oppidan1933 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 74 Then shall the Nobles possesse all the Dignities and Offices of temporall honour to themselves, sole Lords without the improper mixture of Scholastick, and pusillanimous upstarts. 1661 Marquis of Argyll Instr. to Son 139 Though among scholastick men we find couragious and refined polite spirits, yet Princes take not usually such as they intend for their service from the schools though they be knowing and able persons; for 'tis business and action that strengthens the brain, while contemplation weakneth it. 4. Befitting or characteristic of university learning or academic discussion; following traditional academic methods, esp. disputation; (depreciative) pedantic, impractical, theoretical, needlessly subtle or abstruse. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [adjective] scholastical?1526 schoolish1549 pedantical1592 pen and inkhornc1598 pedanta1612 pedantic1631 scholastic1700 instinctless1947 nitpicky1962 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [adjective] fallacious?1473 sophistical1483 Jesuitish1602 sophistic1605 Jesuitical1613 Jesuitic1640 casuistical1648 specious1651 casuistic1660 casual1672 fine-drawn1681 scholastic1700 scholasticated1772 verbalistic1879 1700 R. Johnson Praxis Medicinæ Reformata To Rdr. sig. A2 Diseases cannot be cured by Scholastick Twattle, or Fine Words, but by good Remedies. 1779 S. Johnson Cowley in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets I. 53 The following lines of Donne..have something in them too scholastick. 1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 266 It [sc. Sidney's Arcadia] is not romantic, but scholastic; not poetry, but casuistry. 1846 Prospective Rev. 2 56 The perspicuous good sense and scholastic precision of Whately. 1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue v. 217 The modifying words especially..look very much like scholastic products. 1931 Rep. Proc. 5th Internat. Bot. Congr. 1930 302 To ask how many carpels are involved in such a gynoeceum was a purely scholastic question, which could never receive an answer, because no answer existed. 1975 Amer. Jrnl. Psychotherapy 29 272 This biting critic of petty scholastic wrangling, now has to admit that his own work has become the subject of the same wrangling. 2016 Guardian (Nexis) 21 Feb. His third novel..was written to strict literary formulae and contained more scholastic hair-splitting and arcane erudition. B. n. 1. A representative or adherent of the theological and philosophical teaching of medieval academic institutions or the ‘schools’ (school n.¹ 12a), based upon the authority of the Bible and Christian Fathers and the logic and philosophy of Aristotle and his commentators; a philosopher or theologian using the methods of medieval academic institutions, characterized by the use of dialectical reasoning, subtle argument, and disputation; a schoolman or a disciple of the schoolmen (schoolman n. 3). Now historical.In early use sometimes with depreciative connotations: see note at sense A. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > scholasticism > [noun] > adherent of questionary1435 questionist1528 school doctor1528 schoolman1528 school divine1536 summist1536 scholastical1565 scholastic1604 1604 tr. J. Le Vager in Voluntarie Conversion 6 Rats, Mice, & dogs may eate the bodie of Christ: as they teach in their Cautelae Missae, and S. Thomas, and other Scholasticks, beside a thousand other blasphemies. 1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) To Parl. sig. A4 Doubt not, worthy Senators to vindicate the sacred honour and judgment of Moses your predecessor, from the shallow commenting of Scholasticks and Canonists. ?1700 A. Lortie Script.-terms Church-union xii. 78 For indeed is it likely, that, Christianity for many Ages having been altered in many weighty Points, the present Trinitarian..System has all this while remained the same that it was from the beginning, and by the hands of the Platonists and Scholasticks has passed pure and undefiled? 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 97 Aristotle, Gassendus, Des Cartes, with the numerous family of the scholastics, all ran into the same trackless error. 1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages II. ix. 575 It was not only a knowledge of Aristotle that the scholastics of Europe derived. 1875 H. W. Longfellow Monte Cassino in Masque of Pandora 111 In its streets The Angelic Doctor as a school-boy played, And dreamed perhaps the dreams, that he repeats In ponderous folios for scholastics made. 1907 Academy 30 Nov. 184/2 In the year 1907..one must hesitate to discuss Antonio Rosmini—the last of the Scholastics. 1934 Science 6 July 5/1 The great value of this [Cartesian] revolution lay in the fact that men were freed by it of the authority of the Aristotelian scholastics. 2014 Sc. Express (Nexis) 15 June 38 Historians argue whether Gallipoli was a good idea with much the same intensity as Medieval Scholastics debated the number of angels that could fit on a pin-head. †2. A scholar or highly educated person; (occasionally) a person who possesses academic learning or theoretical knowledge but lacks practical skills or worldly experience. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] uþwitec888 larewc900 learnerc900 witec900 wise manOE leredc1154 masterc1225 readera1387 artificer1449 man of science1482 rabbi1527 rabbin1531 worthy1567 artsmanc1574 philologer1588 artist1592 virtuoso1613 sophist1614 fulla1616 scholastica1633 philologist1638 gnostic1641 scholarian1647 pundit1661 scientman1661 savant1719 ollamh1723 maulvi1776 pandect1791 Sabora1797 erudit1800 mallam1829 Gelehrter1836 erudite1865 walking encyclopaedia1868 Einstein1942 a1633 G. More Holy Pract. Devine Lover (1657) Ep. Ded. They perswade themselues..that hee hath taught you more high, and euident truths,..then all the subtile Scholasticks, and suttle politicks put together could haue done. 1645 R. Overton Sacred Decretall 6 If Preaching should not be reduc'd and reconfin'd in the antient bounds of the Clergie, the Mechanicks would out-strip the Scholasticks in Teaching, and Knowledge would so encrease and multiply among the Common People. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 244. ⁋1 The Town-Orators..despise all Men as unexperienced Scholasticks who wait for an Occasion before they speak. 1742 D. Hume Ess. Moral & Polit. II. ix. 143 I..am in Danger, if my Answer be too rigid and severe, of passing for a Pedant and Scholastic. 1863 N. A. Davis Campaign from Texas to Maryland 9 Men of all trades and professions—attorneys, doctors, merchants, farmers, mechanics, editors, scholastics, &c. 3. Roman Catholic Church. A Jesuit in training for ordination to the priesthood. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > seminary > [noun] > Jesuit, for novices > person attending scholastic1706 Tertian Father1855 1706 Hist. Wks. Learned July 445 This Society consists of three Families, viz. the Novices, the Scholasticks, and the Professed. When they arrive at the last Degree, they solemnly take the three Monastick Vows. 1824 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 175 This Society now consists of twenty six fathers, ten scholastics in theology, seventeen scholarships in philosophy, rhetoric, and belles lettres, fourteen scholastics in the noviciate, twenty two lay brothers out of, and four lay brothers in, the noviciate. 1876 J. Morris Let. in J. H. Pollen Life & Lett. J. Morris (1896) 181 Three different communities under one Rector—the novices, scholastics, and Tertian Fathers. 1881 Memorials Stonyhurst College iii. 21 The English Jesuits had another College in Belgium, at Liége. This was for the higher studies of their own scholastics. 1934 Bks. Abroad 8 138/1 The Jesuits have a custom of selecting certain of their young scholastics to receive their training, in part at least, outside their own country. 2006 J. Martin My Life with Saints (2007) xiii. 271 Along with our studies, we scholastics..were required to work from ten to fifteen hours a week in a ministry of our choosing. †4. In medieval and early modern Europe: a member of the clergy who was the head of an ecclesiastical school attached to a cathedral, monastery, or collegiate church, and who (sometimes) also oversaw all schools in the city or diocese. Cf. scholaster n. Obsolete. historical. rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > council > cathedral dignitaries > [noun] > scholaster scholaster1694 scholastic1777 scoloc1852 1777 R. Henry Hist. Great Brit. III. 442 These teachers of the cathedral schools were called The scholastics of the diocess; and all the youth in it who were designed for the church, were intitled to the benefit of their instructions. 1844 G. L. Craik Sketches Hist. Lit. & Learning Eng. I. 49 In 1179 it was ordered..that in every cathedral should be appointed and maintained a head teacher, or scholastic. †5. In the Byzantine Empire: an advocate. Obsolete. historical. rare. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > counsellor, barrister, or advocate > advocate in Byzantine Empire scholastic1846 1846 Penny Cycl. Suppl. II. 558/1 Socrates, the ecclesiastical historian..followed the profession of scholastic or advocate. †6. An artist who adheres to the methods or principles of an academy of arts, esp. one who paints in a conventional and formal way. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > [noun] > artist > in specific style pictorialist1839 conventionalist1846 polychromatist1854 nudist1866 scholastic1892 archaicist1957 assemblagist1963 eroticist1965 conceptualist1970 orientalist1983 1892 Daily News 30 Apr. 6/2 Idealists and naturalists, scholastics and impressionists, were necessarily exclusive when each was struggling for the ascendant, and claiming for its school the possession of the truth. 7. U.S. In plural. Academic studies; schoolwork. Cf. academic n. 6.Frequently paired or contrasted with athletics when describing elements of school or university life. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > study > [noun] studyinglOE studyc1300 poring1340 study?1531 conning1553 revolving1555 peruse1578 cultivation1639 culture1687 industry1875 scholastic1895 studenting1922 1895 Washington Post 13 Feb. 8/3 Prof. Sloane..takes occasion to pledge Princeton's supremacy in athletics as well as scholastics. 1964 Michiganensian 67 Beta Theta Pi, Michigan's first fraternity, prides itself on the superior performance in scholastics, athletics, and campus leadership positions which is characteristic of its members. 2013 M. Tyson in N.Y. Mag. 28 Oct. 23/2 I think I'm the stupidest guy in the world when it comes to scholastics, but I got my honor-roll star. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1483
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