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schoolman

[ skool-muhn, -man ]

noun

, plural school·men [skool, -m, uh, n, -men],
  1. a person versed in scholastic learning or engaged in scholastic pursuits.
  2. (sometimes initial capital letter) a master in one of the schools or universities of the Middle Ages; one of the medieval writers who dealt with theology and philosophy after the methods of scholasticism.


schoolman

1

/ ˈskuːlmən /

noun

  1. sometimes capital a scholar versed in the learning of the Schoolmen
  2. rare.
    a professional educator or teacher
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Schoolman

2

/ ˈskuːlmən /

noun

  1. sometimes not capital a master in one of the schools or universities of the Middle Ages who was versed in scholasticism; scholastic
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of schoolman1

First recorded in 1530–40; school 1 + man
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Example Sentences

It treats any acknowledgment of male-female differences as reactionary while constructing an architecture of sexual identities whose complexities would daunt a medieval schoolman.

As for the schoolmen, Luther called them “locusts, caterpillars, frogs, and lice.”

The necessity must have been pressing, for in 1308 he sent to their assistance the greatest schoolman of the Order, Duns Scotus.

The disputatious ardor of the schoolman was gratified.

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason accomplished what the nominalistic schoolmen failed to achieve: it showed the impossibility of establishing by means of logic the dogma of God or any absolute conception of the universe.

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