scholastic
nounEtymology
Borrowed from Middle French scholastique, from Latin scholasticus, from Ancient Greek σχολαστικός (skholastikós).
- derived from σχολαστικός
- derived from scholasticus
- borrowed from scholastique
Definitions
A member of the medieval philosophical school of scholasticism
A member of the medieval philosophical school of scholasticism; a medieval Christian Aristotelian.
Of or relating to school
Of or relating to school; academic
- This award is for the greatest scholastic achievement by a graduating student.
Of or relating to the philosophical tradition of scholasticism
- And hence it is that men, even when they are baffled and silenced in this scholastic way, are seldom or never convinced , and so brought over to the conquering side
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Characterized by excessive subtlety, or needlessly minute subdivisions
Characterized by excessive subtlety, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
Alternative letter-case form of scholastic.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at scholastic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at scholastic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at scholastic
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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