schoolman

[skool-muhn, -man]

noun

plural

schoolmen 

1. a person versed in scholastic learning or engaged in scholastic pursuits.

2. (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

/ ˈskuːlmən /

noun

1. (sometimes capital) a scholar versed in the learning of the Schoolmen

2. rare,  a professional educator or teacher

Schoolman

²

/ ˈskuːlmən /

noun

1. (sometimes not capital) a master in one of the schools or universities of the Middle Ages who was versed in scholasticism; scholastic

Word History and Origins

Origin of schoolman¹

First recorded in 1530–40; school ¹ + man

Example Sentences

It treats any acknowledgment of male-female differences as reactionary while constructing an architecture of sexual identities whose complexities would daunt a medieval schoolman.

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As for the schoolmen, Luther called them “locusts, caterpillars, frogs, and lice.”

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The necessity must have been pressing, for in 1308 he sent to their assistance the greatest schoolman of the Order, Duns Scotus.

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The disputatious ardor of the schoolman was gratified.

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Kant's Critique of Pure Reason accomplished what the nominalistic schoolmen failed to achieve: it showed the impossibility of establishing by means of logic the dogma of God or any absolute conception of the universe.

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