schoolmen
- plural of schoolman.
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
Repeated last week was the curious spectacle of private schoolmen reading the annual report of the headmaster of one of the least progressive schools and finding therein some of the most progressive views.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1953 he was elected president of the American Association of School Administrators, the top honor U.S. public schoolmen can bestow.
From Time Magazine Archive
The arts of polished and refined life, refined literature, and the profounder studies of the schoolmen, all have their distinguished votaries,—I say distinguished, with reference to the standard of science in our country.
From The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns by Caruthers, William Alexander
