schoolman

American  

[skool-muhn, -man] / ˈskul mən, -ˌmæn /

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.

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schoolman ¹ British  

/ ˈskuːlmən /

noun

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

2. rare a professional educator or teacher

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Schoolman ² British  

/ 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

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Etymology

Origin of schoolman

First recorded in 1530–40; school ¹ + man

Example Sentences

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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It is, when rightly considered, this same question that lends dramatic unity and human value to the long debate of the mediæval schoolmen.

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This opinion, which was propounded by the schoolman Ockham, and by several other writers of his age,29 has in modern times found many adherents,30 and been defended through a variety of motives.

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Already the British schoolman, Duns Scotus, asked, 'whether it was impossible for matter to think?'

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