schoolman
noun
a person versed in scholastic learning or engaged in scholastic pursuits.
schoolmen
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pluralof schoolman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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
If only the schoolmen knew more law, Dean Hamilton concluded, many of those cases could be avoided.
From Time Magazine Archive
He thus automatically became one of the East's most important secondary schoolmen, for Loomis occupies a secure place among the nation's top dozen prep schools.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Greek and Latin Fathers, the schoolmen, the catholic theologians, Italian, Spanish, French, the German mystical writers, the Protestant divines and preachers, have produced writings unsurpassed in intellectual strength and spiritual discernment.
From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
