scholastic

Definitions


[skəˈlastɪk], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- of or concerning schools and education
(e.g: scholastic achievement)

- relating to medieval scholasticism


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Origin:
late 15th century (in scholastic): via French and Latin from Greek skholastikos ‘studious’, from skholazein ‘be at leisure to study’, from skholē (see school)


[skəˈlastɪk], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an adherent of scholasticism; a schoolman

- (in the Roman Catholic Church) a member of a religious order, especially the Society of Jesus, who is between the novitiate and the priesthood


Phrases:

Origin:
late 15th century (in scholastic): via French and Latin from Greek skholastikos ‘studious’, from skholazein ‘be at leisure to study’, from skholē (see school)




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