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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

If only the schoolmen knew more law, Dean Hamilton concluded, many of those cases could be avoided.

From Time Magazine Archive

So anxious was Commissioner Studebaker to avoid any suggestion of what Russian, German or Italian schoolmen would do with such an opportunity, that he and New Dealer Ickes were ostentatiously vague in their remarks.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the schoolmen go too far with this.

From The Student-Life of Germany by Howitt, William