schoolman
noun
a person versed in scholastic learning or engaged in scholastic pursuits.
schoolman
American
[skool-muhn, -man]
/ ˈskul mən, -ˌmæn /
noun
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schoolmen
plural
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a person versed in scholastic learning or engaged in scholastic pursuits.
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(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
British
/ ˈskuːlmən /
noun
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(sometimes capital) a scholar versed in the learning of the Schoolmen
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rare a professional educator or teacher
Schoolman
2
British
/ ˈskuːlmən /
noun
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Tall and angular of frame, sandy-haired and lantern-jawed, he has the mien of an old school schoolman, beneath which lie the combined capacities of militant churchman, practical moralist and sagacious promoter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gladstone, Olympian Christian, had, said one, "the mind of a 13th Century schoolman."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Unlike his predecessor, President-Elect Sproul is no schoolman, no scholar, no holder of learned degrees.
From Time Magazine Archive
The necessity must have been pressing, for in 1308 he sent to their assistance the greatest schoolman of the Order, Duns Scotus.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
“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
I’m going to meet Gerhard Schoolman, the co-owner of a bar called Cafe Abseits, reputedly one of the best places to try Franconian country beer in Bamberg.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2016
Yet Jill Schoolman, publisher of Brooklyn-based Archipelago Books, says she is mulling a new one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2013
In this view the great Schoolman but follows the teachings of St. Augustine.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by John Augustine Zahm
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
They will pass, and the schoolmen will endure.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
As the theories of the schoolmen subside, and men no longer ignore nature, it will become recognised as the source rather than the tool of intellect.
From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by George Jacob Holyoake
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