a person versed in scholastic learning or engaged in scholastic pursuits.
(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.
(sometimes capital) a scholar versed in the learning of the Schoolmen
rare a professional educator or teacher
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But people everywhere were amazed last week to hear that Dickson City, coal-mining suburb of Scranton, Pa., has a schoolman who cannot read and can scarcely write.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every schoolman knows why: students, teachers, principals and headmasters keep their eyes glued on the entrance requirements of the colleges.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unlike his predecessor, President-Elect Sproul is no schoolman, no scholar, no holder of learned degrees.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week it looked as though Secretary Gray, at 40, might end up a schoolman yet.
From Time Magazine Archive
I run to a dictionary on a disputed word, and I point my inquiring nose upon the page like a careful schoolman.
From Chimney-Pot Papers by Endell, Fritz August Gottfried
“It’s been very hard to survive,” said Archipalego publisher Jill Schoolman.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2020
We can relate to it as activists—or, in Schoolman and Serra’s case, protest artists—with the power to publicly criticize or boycott, and influence those around us.
From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2018
“Now is the time for solar,” said Anya Schoolman, executive director of the Community Power Network, a Washington-based nonprofit group that helps communities build renewable energy projects.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2014
Yet Jill Schoolman, publisher of Brooklyn-based Archipelago Books, says she is mulling a new one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2013
The duty of the Schoolman was to explain church doctrine; these explanations were characterized by fine distinctions and by an absence of real content.
From Autobiography and Selected Essays by Huxley, Thomas Henry
Aquinas and his fellow scholars who met at the great universities were known as schoolmen, or scholastics.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
As it is used, even by these schoolmen, it seems to signify only those means by which we take in information about our environment, including our own bodies, presumably.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 4, 2010
In such a mishmash, secondary schoolmen hardly knew what to get their students ready for.
From Time Magazine Archive
But to Denver's Kenneth Oberholtzer and to the other top-level U.S. public schoolmen he represented, the long-winded words meant simply that the professionals were getting together again to talk about the gristle of their jobs.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is, when rightly considered, this same question that lends dramatic unity and human value to the long debate of the mediæval schoolmen.
From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by More, Paul Elmer
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