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A member of the medieval philosophical school of scholasticism; a medieval Christian Aristotelian.
scholastic
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Of or relating to school; academic
- This award is for the greatest scholastic achievement by a graduating student.
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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; pedantic; formal.