Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A man who is a professional educator or scholar.
- noun A medieval Scholastic scholar or philosopher.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A master in one of the medieval universities or other schools; especially, a Christian Peripatetic of the middle ages; a scholastic. See
scholasticism .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
academician
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation
- noun a scholar in one of the universities of the Middle Ages; versed in scholasticism
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Examples
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But that subtle schoolman, Dr. Pusey, said of him, as of modern scientists generally (as distinct from the older scientists from Copernicus to Newton and beyond) that he had done something worse than to deny God; he had forgotten Him.
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But that subtle schoolman, Dr. Pusey, said of him, as of modern scientists generally (as distinct from the older scientists from Copernicus to Newton and beyond) that he had done something worse than to deny God; he had forgotten Him.
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Gardiner had been instrumental in guiding Camelot to part of the $40 million that Philadelphia schoolman, Paul Vallas, was paying out to have Philadelphia's "high-need" students professionally handled.
Archive 2009-05-01 Jim Horn 2009
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Gardiner had been instrumental in guiding Camelot to part of the $40 million that Philadelphia schoolman, Paul Vallas, was paying out to have Philadelphia's "high-need" students professionally handled.
From CEDU to Brown Schools to Camelot Schools, Inc. Jim Horn 2009
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Then Vaca de Castro, the licentiate, the clerk, the schoolman, the man of books, came down on us with his reserve like
Westward Ho! 2007
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He was a very subtle schoolman, who first said that we owe the origin of the word “buffoon” to a little Athenian sacrificer called Bupho, who, being tired of his employment, absconded, and never returned.
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And yet a metaphysical schoolman might think, that, where an intention was supposed to be requisite, if that intention really had not place, no consequence ought to follow, and no obligation be imposed.
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Ibn Ezra was no schoolman, but he certainly experienced, and expressed in rich and evocative Hebrew, a deep alienation from mundane reality and passionate longing to return to the spiritual realm.
Abraham Ibn Ezra Langermann, Tzvi 2006
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For example, when a schoolman tells me "Aristotle hath said it," all I conceive he means by it is to dispose me to embrace his opinion with the deference and submission which custom has annexed to that name.
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley 2006
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And so I would say that sofar as being a schoolman, he was a big inspiration, because I never saw any earmark of racism in him, although I don't know where Hand came from.
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