Word Meanings - SCHOLASTICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Scholastic.

SCHOLASTICISM
The method or subtitles the schools of philosophy; scholastic formality; scholastic doctrines or philosophy. The spirit of the old scholasticism . . . spurned laborious investigation and slow induction. J. P. Smith.
SCHOLASTICAL
Scholastic.
SCHOLASTICALLY
In a scholastic manner.
SCHOLASTIC
1. Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning. Sir K. Digby. 2. Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the Middle Ages ; as, scholastic divinity
NEO-SCHOLASTIC
Of or pert. to Neo-Scholasticism.
NEO-SCHOLASTICISM
The modern revival of the Scholastic philosophy, esp. of that of Thomas Aquinas, with critical revision to suit the exigencies of the general advance in learning. The Neo-Scholastic movement received a great impetus from Leo XIII.'s interest in it.