Word Meaning

Meaning of "scholastic" and the crossword clue

- Academic
- Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.
- Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the Middle Ages (see Schoolman); as, scholastic divinity or theology; scholastic philosophy.
- Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
- One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools.
- See the Note under Jesuit.