schoolmen
- plural of schoolman.
Example Sentences
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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
Some of the schoolmen are scrambling hard to reach a now fashionable orbit: "We are going to employ a more competent science instructor."
From Time Magazine Archive
In such a mishmash, secondary schoolmen hardly knew what to get their students ready for.
From Time Magazine Archive
The schoolmen, who certainly would not have allowed such a doctrine, would rightly have said that it was a complete denial of the forma substantialis, and a degradation of it to the forma accidentalis.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur
