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scholarly person |
scholarship |
scholastic |
scholastical |
scholastically |
scholasticism
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| scholiast
| scholiastic
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| scholical
scholasticism
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun scholasticism has 2 senses
- scholasticism(n = noun.cognition) Array - the system of philosophy dominant in medieval Europe; based on Aristotle and the Church Fathers; Array is a kind of philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory
- scholasticism(n = noun.attribute) academicism, academism - orthodoxy of a scholastic variety; Array is a kind of traditionalism, traditionality
Derived form adjective scholastic2
CIDE DICTIONARY
scholasticism, n.
The method or subtilties of the schools of philosophy; scholastic formality; scholastic doctrines or philosophy. [1913 Webster]
"The spirit of the old scholasticism . . . spurned laborious investigation and slow induction."
[1913 Webster]
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