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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Unlike his predecessor, President-Elect Sproul is no schoolman, no scholar, no holder of learned degrees.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dr. O'Shea has been a public schoolman for 46 years.
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
Gladstone, Olympian Christian, had, said one, "the mind of a 13th Century schoolman."
From Time Magazine Archive
Again, the logician, the schoolman, has only to analyse the soul, to take count of the shades it passes through, of its manifold nature, its inward strifes and battles.
From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Michelet, Jules
“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
Schoolman and her staff will assist homeowners in reviewing and negotiating lease and purchase agreements with solar companies at no charge.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 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
On Sunday the faithful calendar announced it, and Doctor Schoolman made special mention of it, urging attendance.
From The First Soprano by Hitchcock, Mary
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
Denver schoolmen have given their curriculum the sweeping term of "general education."
From Time Magazine Archive
Last month he decided to launch a one-man crusade to set the schoolmen straight.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oxford produced some of the greatest schoolmen: Duns Scotus, the "subtle," who had written thirteen folio volumes of arid metaphysics before his early death; Bradwardine, the "profound," and Ockham, the "invincible and unmatched."
From Oxford and Her Colleges by Smith, Goldwin
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