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
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
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
That which, empirically apprehended, is the most transitory of all, presents itself to the metaphysical vision, which sees beyond the forms of empirical perception, as that which alone endures, the nunc stans of the schoolmen.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur
