“+ noun
Usage: sometimes capitalized S
Etymology: ne- + scholasticism
1. : a movement begun in the middle of the 19th century among Catholic scholars and having for its aims the restatement and exposition of the methods and teachings of the medieval Schoolmen in a manner suited to the intellectual needs of the present and further speculation that makes use of the findings of modern research and is grounded on principles derived from the Greeks and the Schoolmen
2. : scholasticism 2