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Scholastic

Scholastic

5 9.9
A university thinker in the Middle Ages who used reason to study religion
  • noun
  • /skəˈlæstɪk/
  • Formal
translation icon : escolástico
  • Drawing from Memory. Allen Say, Illus. by the author. Scholastic Press, 2011. 9780545176866.

The our our great difference from the scholastic, the absolutist, lies in the way we face now.

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Examples

  • I spent two and a half hours in a dentist's office... listening to Muzak and reading Junior Scholastic.

    The Star Chamber (1983)

  • A preview of the upcoming book from Scholastic's My Name Is America series.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • The Princess in the Tower. Beneath the Crown series. Sharon Stewart. Scholastic Canada. 978-0-439-96103-5.

    Academic text (2007)

  • Scholastic Canada Book of Lists. James Buckley, Robert Stremme, and Pat Hancock. Scholastic Canada. 978-0-439-95237-8.

    Academic text (2007)

  • DiConsiglio, John. "Fernando Vargas: Fists of Gold." Scholastic Update 12 Apr 1996: 7. Print.

    Academic text (2013)

  • Beauty Queens. Libba Bray, read by Libba Bray. Scholastic Audio, 2011. 9780545315388.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Vivaldi's ring of mystery. Douglas Cowling. Ill. Laura Fernandez and Rick Jacobson. Scholastic Canada. 0-439-96904-2.

    Academic text (2006)

  • I lost my tooth in Africa. Penda Diakit. Ill. Baba Wagu Diakit. Scholastic. 978-0-439-66226-0.

    Academic text (2007)

  • Scholastic Kids Almanac. Elaine Pascoe, Deborah Kops, and Jenifer Morse. Scholastic Canada. 978-0-439-94755-8.

    Academic text (2007)

  • Thomas was a renowned scholastic who contributed significantly to medieval philosophy.

Synonyms

schoolman
vsScholastic
  • Archaic
9.9

A person in the Middle Ages who studied and taught philosophy at universities

is a philosopher or theologian who followed that medieval university method

Surface Forms

Scholastic singular
Scholastics plural

Etymology

Scholastic comes from the old Greek word scholē meaning 'leisure' and later 'school', and you can see the same root in school and scholar. So a Scholastic was someone from the 'school', a learned teacher or thinker in the Middle Ages, which is why the word now means a medieval philosopher or theologian.