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   scholastic

   /skəˈlastɪk/

   adjective

   • 1. of or concerning schools and education: "scholastic achievement" Similar academiceducationalschoolscholarly
   • ▪ relating to secondary schools: US "scholastic sports events"
   • 2. relating to medieval scholasticism.
   • ▪ typical of scholasticism in being pedantic or overly subtle: "to distinguish between them is little more than a scholastic exercise" Similar scholarlylearnedacademiceruditedonnishpedanticover-subtleoverprecisehair-splittingprecisionistinformal:nitpickingarchaic:overnice

   noun

   • 1. an adherent of scholasticism; a schoolman. historical
   • 2. (in the Roman Catholic Church) a member of a religious order, especially the Society of Jesus, who is between the novitiate and the priesthood.

   Word Origin late 16th century (in scholastic (sense 2 of the adjective)): via Latin from Greek skholastikos ‘studious’, from skholazein ‘be at leisure to study’, from skholē (see school1).

   Derivatives

   • 1. scholastically adverb

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