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
He thus automatically became one of the East's most important secondary schoolmen, for Loomis occupies a secure place among the nation's top dozen prep schools.
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 schoolmen, who certainly would not have allowed such a doctrine, would rightly have said that it was a complete denial of the forma substantialis, and a degradation of it to the forma accidentalis.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
