school divinen.

1536 R. Taverner tr. P. Melanchthon Apol. sig. K.ij, in Confessyon Fayth Germaynes Absolution may proprely be called the sacrament of penaunce, as the beste lerned also of the schole diuines do speake.

1574 A. Golding tr. A. Marlorat Catholike Expos. Reuelation f. 116^v Nothing..can be imagined more plagie and more deadly, than the doctrine of the Schoole diuines concerning..vncertentie of saluation.

1629 T. Jackson Treat. Divine Essence i. 6 Wee must allow the Poet..to bee more dainty and curious in this kinde, than it is requisite the School-divine or Philosopher should be.

1664 H. More Apol. in Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity iv. §6 The Conclusions or Phraseologies of the School-Divines touching this Point.

1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace ii. i. 7 In Quibbles, Angel and Archangel join, And God the Father turns a School-Divine.

1766 J. Oswald Appeal to Common Sense iii. ii. 131 Never did school-divine perplex and puzzle himself more..in defining the true faith, than Mr Hume has done.

1827 W. Phelan Hist. Policy Church of Rome in Ireland ii. 152 (note) The school divines were the scribes and lawyers of the middle ages.

1865 E. B. Pusey Eirenicon 214 What school-Divines call ‘Potentia proxima’.

1900 New Ireland Rev. May 135 Along with the authority of the Church, the authority of the school divines fell desperately out of favour in England.

1995 C. Conti Metaphysical Personalism iii. 74 Imagine the Father acting like a school divine for the sake of instructing the Son how to eventually play his part on earth.