schoolman
noun
a person versed in scholastic learning or engaged in scholastic pursuits.
schoolmen
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pluralof schoolman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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 Chicago schoolmen were working out a plan by which 13 Illinois colleges and universities will offer teacher-training courses at the undergraduate level and thus assure a whole new batch of teachers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Denver schoolmen have given their curriculum the sweeping term of "general education."
From Time Magazine Archive
This is exemplified with an exaggeration that savours of irony in the entities and quidities of the schoolmen.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
