adj. & n.
--adj.
1. of or concerning universities, schools, education, teachers, etc.
2 pedantic; formal (shows scholastic precision).
3 Philos. hist. of, resembling, or concerning the schoolmen, esp. in dealing with logical subtleties.
--n.
1. a student.
2 Philos. hist. a schoolman.
3 a theologian of scholastic tendencies.
4 RC Ch. a member of any of several religious orders, who is between the novitiate and the priesthood.
Derivatives:
scholastically adv. scholasticism n.
Etymology: L scholasticus f. Gk skholastikos studious f. skholazo be at leisure, formed as SCHOOL