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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Last week it looked as though Secretary Gray, at 40, might end up a schoolman yet.
From Time Magazine Archive
In many ways Kenneth Oberholtzer is a schoolman's 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
Dr. O'Shea has been a public schoolman for 46 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
In other words, the public schoolman has gone through a mill of discipline out of school as well as in.
From As We Are and As We May Be by Sir Walter Besant
“It’s been very hard to survive,” said Archipalego publisher Jill Schoolman.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2020
The invaluable online resource Quote Investigator traces it all the way back to 1973, and an unlikely source: a short film by the artists Carlota Fay Schoolman and Richard Serra called “Television Delivers People.”
From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2018
We always believed that was Beverly Perry,” said Anya Schoolman, director of the nonprofit Community Power Network, at a recent news conference of environmentalists who oppose the merger.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2015
Yet Jill Schoolman, publisher of Brooklyn-based Archipelago Books, says she is mulling a new one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2013
But what is obtained by quotations from Maimonides more than from Alexander Hales, or any other Schoolman of the same age?
From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
Last week, convening in Atlantic City, U. S. schoolmen faced a big, unpleasant fact: NYA had become a formidable rival of the nation's schools.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last month he decided to launch a one-man crusade to set the schoolmen straight.
From Time Magazine Archive
The schoolmen understand, in fact, by forma substantialis that which I call the grade of the objectification of will in a thing.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
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