scholastic has definitions from the fields of education,philosophy
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[ adjective ] (education) of or relating to schools

Examples

"scholastic year"

Used in print

(The Dallas Morning News,...)

The bill is designed to provide special schooling for more deaf students in the scholastic age at a reduced cost to the state .

(Bonnie Prudden, "The Dancer and the Gymnast"...)

Certainly there would be less anxiety , fewer accidents ( it is the clumsy child who sustains the worst injuries ) , and higher scholastic averages , since alert children work better .

Related terms

school

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[ noun ] a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit

Synonyms

bookworm pedant

Used in print

(The Dallas Morning News,...)

The TEA estimated there would be 182 scholastics to attend the day_school in Dallas_County , saving them from coming to Austin to live in the state deaf school .

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scholar intellectual purist

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[ adjective ] (philosophy) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism

Examples

"scholastic philosophy"

Used in print

(J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)

The actual function of patristic civilian canonist scholastic communism was adequately set_forth by St._Gregory almost a millennium before More wrote Utopia .

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scholasticism

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[ noun ] (philosophy) a Scholastic philosopher or theologian

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philosopher

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