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Definition: Scholastic |
ScholasticAdjective1. Of or relating to schools; "scholastic year". 2. Of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism; "scholastic philosophy". Noun1. A person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scholastic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Scholastic Anselm of Laon, Doctor Scholasticus. (1050-1117.) Epiphanius the Scholastic. An Italian scholar. (Sixth century.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Scholasticism comes from the latin word scholasticus which means "that [which] belongs to the school", and is the school of philosophy taught by the academics (or schoolmen) of medieval universities circa 1100 - 1500. Scholasticism attempted to reconcile the philosophy of the ancient classical philosophers with medieval Christian theology.In each discipline, the scholastics used a book by a renowed scholar, called auctor, as basic course literature. By reading this book thoroughly and critically, the disciples learned to appreciate the theories of the auctor, and thus of the problems studied in the whole discipline, in a critical and self-confident way. Scholastic works therefore have a tendency to take the form of a long list of "footnotes" to the works studied, not being able to take a stand as theories on their own.
Scholastic philosophy usually combined logic, metaphysics and semantics into one discipline, and is generally recognized to have developed our understanding of logic significantly when compared to the older sources. In the high scholastic period of 1250 - 1350 the philosophy of nature, psychology, epistemology and philosophy of science were also important areas of inquiry.
During the humanism of the 1400s and 1500s, scholastics were put to the background and somewhat forgotten. This has been the source of the view of scholastics as a rigid, formalistic, aged and unproper way of doing philosophy. During the catholic scholastic revival in the late 1800s and early 1900s the scholastics were repopularized, but with a kind of narrow focus on certain scholastics and their respective schools of thought, notably Thomas Aquinas. In this context, scholasticism is often used in theology or metaphysics, but not many other areas of inquiry.
The following authors were commonly used as auctors:
- Aristotle
- Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius
- Plato (specifically Timaios)
Known Scholastics
- Early scholastics (1100 - 1250):
- Pierre Abélard
- Gilbert de la Porrée
- High scholastics (1250 - 1350):
- Robert Grosseteste
- Roger Bacon
- Albertus Magnus
- Thomas Aquinas
- Boëthius de Dacia
- Duns Scotus
- Radulphus Brito
- William of Ockham
- Jean Buridan
- Late scholastics (1350 - 1500):
- Marsilius of Padua
See Also
External link:
- Medieval philosophy
- Peter Abelard
- Duns Scotus
- Etext of 1908 document about Scholasticism
- http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13548a.htm
- Yahoo! directory category: Scholasticism
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Scholasticism."
Synonyms: ScholasticSynonyms: bookworm (n), pedant (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Knowledge | Erudite, instructed, leaned, lettered, educated; well conned, well informed, well read, well grounded, well educated; enlightened, shrewd, savant, blue, bookish, scholastic, solid, profound, deep-read, book-learned; accomplished; (skillful); omniscient; self-taught. |
Learning | Adjective: studious; scholastic, scholarly; teachable; docile; (willing); apt; industrious. |
School | Adjective: scholastic, academic, collegiate; educational. |
Teaching | Adjective: teaching;v; taught;Verb: educational; scholastic, academic, doctrinal; disciplinal; instructive, instructional, didactic; propaedeutic, propaedeutical. |
Theology | Theologue, theologian; scholastic, divine, schoolman, canonist, theologist; the Fathers. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Scholastic |
| English words defined with "scholastic": academicism, academism ♦ Dux ♦ Occam, Ockham ♦ Scholastical, scholastically, scholasticism, Scholical, Scotist, securely ♦ William of Occam, William of Ockham. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "scholastic": counselor, dormitory ♦ dormitory supervisor ♦ head resident, dormitor ♦ Irrefragable Doctor ♦ RESIDENCE COUNSELOR ♦ Sentences, Slate One, spending on teaching materials,primary, spending on teaching materials,secondary, spending on teaching materials,tertiary ♦ TEACHER, RESOURCE. (references) |
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Screenplays | Ok, the way I see it, if we were an old couple, dated for years, graduated, away from all these scholastic complications, and I reached over and kissed you, you wouldn't say a word, you'd be delighted, probably, but if I was to do that now it'd be quite forward, and if I did it the first time we ever met you probably would hit me. (Kicking and Screaming; writing credit: Noah Baumbach; Oliver Berkman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Scholastic England (1948) | |
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The radiance of which he speaks is the scholastic quidditas, the whatness of a thing |
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Health | Teachers-and even parents-may have dismissed their scholastic difficulties as laziness. (references) | |
The XXY men were more likely to have had histories of scholastic failure, depression and other psychological problems, and to lack energy and enthusiasm. (references) | ||
Chronic use of antiepileptic drugs may cause toxic syndromes and may also have adverse effects on learning, scholastic achievement, development, and job performance. (references) | ||
Children | Benin | However, elementary school pass rates in recent years highlighted significant progress by girls in literacy and scholastic achievement. (references) |
Tunisia | Primary school enrollment for the scholastic year was slightly less than the preceding year's, reflecting a decline in the birth rate; secondary school enrollment showed an increase of 8 percent, which appeared equally divided between boys and girls. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Portugal | These teams develop programs of scholastic and vocational study tailored to the individual child and his community. (references) |
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| "Scholastic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.75% of the time. "Scholastic" is used about 89 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 97.75% | 87 | 35,390 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 89 | N/A |
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| Country | Name |
| USA | Scholastic Corporation |
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Expressions using "scholastic": scholastic agency ♦ scholastic theology ♦ scholastic year. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "scholastic": aristotelian-scholastic, extra-scholastic, Neo-Scholastic, non-scholastic. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "scholastic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | skolastik (schoolman). (various references) | |
Arabic | تعليمي (didactic, instructional, instructive, pedagogic, pedagogical, preceptorial), الفيلسوف السكولاستي, دراسي (instructional). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | схоластичен, схоластик (schoolman), учен (academic, boffin, clerkly, erudite, learned, literate, man of science, sage, savant, scholar, scientist, student), учебен (dummy), учителски, училищен (school), образователен (educational), научен (learned, scholarlike, scholarly, sciential, scientific), педантичен (academic, academical, bookish, donnish, finical, literal, mandarin, niminy-piminy, pedantic, pettifogging, precise, priggish, punctilious, punctual, starchy, stuffy), педант (formalist, pedagogue, pedant, pettifogger, precisian, prig, square toes, verbalist). (various references) | |
Chinese | 学者 (scholar). (various references) | |
Czech | studijní (academic), scholastika, scholastický, školní (school). (various references) | |
Danish | kappe for universitetslaerere (scholastic gown, scholastic robe). (various references) | |
Dutch | professorentoga (scholastic gown, scholastic robe). (various references) | |
Farsi | مدرسه ای(scholastical), اموزشگاهی , استادانه (Deft, Professorial, Workmanlike), دقیق (Accurate, Astringent, Astute, Exquisite, Literal, Particular, Precise, Precision, Punctilious, Punctual, Scrutinizer, Set, Sound, Stringent, Subtle, Tender, Tenuous, Watchful, Wistful). (various references) | |
Finnish | opillinen (theoretical). (various references) | |
French | scolastique (scholasticism), scolaire (school). (various references) | |
German | schulmäßig (scholastically), akademisch (academic, academical, academically, collegiate, learned, Longhair, university). (various references) | |
Greek | σχολικόσ, σχολαστικόσ (bookish, donnish, fastidious, finicky, pedagogue, pedant, pedantic, pettifogging, punctilious), φιλολογικόσ (literary, philologic), εκπαιδευτικόσ (educational, educative), ακαδημαϊκόσ (academic, academical, academician, collegiate). (various references) | |
Hebrew | למו"י (tuitional, tutorial), אק"מי (academic), סכולסטי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tudálékos (bookish, pedantic, sapient, wiseacre). (various references) | |
Italian | scolastico (school, school fees, schoolman, student), accademico (academic, academical, academician). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 学究的 (academic). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がっきゅうてき (academic). (various references) | |
Korean | 학교 교육. (various references) | |
Manx | schoillaragh (scholarly). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | olasticschay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | escolástico (academical, schoolman). (various references) | |
Romanian | scolastic (academic, academical, scholastically), scolast (schoolman), universitar (academic, academical, collegiate, university), pedant (academic, academical, bookish, captious, censorious, dryasdust, far fetched, inkhorn, milliner, opinioned, pedant, pedantic, pernickety, precise, precisian, prig, priggish, priggishly, prissy, prolix, punctilious), formal (express, formal, formally, formulary, modal, official, prim, solemn, stiff), dogmatic (assertive, doctrinal, dogmatic, dogmatically, opinionated, opinioned, peremptory, sectarian), şcolar (pupil, scholar, school, schoolboy, student), academic (academic, academical, academically). (various references) | |
Russian | схоластический, схоласт (schoolman), учебный (dummy, instructional, practice, sparring), учительский. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | skolastičar, sholastičar (schoolman, schoolmaster, school-master), sholasitički, dogmatičan, dogmata. (various references) | |
Spanish | escolástico (schoolman). (various references) | |
Swedish | skolastisk, skolastiker, skol-, vetenskaplig (learned, scholarly, scholary, scientific), undervisnings- (educational, instructional, teaching), pedant (pedant, precisian, stickler), noggrann (accurate, careful, close, exact, meticolous, meticulous, narrow, neat, nice, painstaking, particular, precisely, scrupulous, selective, studious), elev- (pupilary), elev (apprentice, junior, learner, probationer, pupil, scholar, the alumni, trainee), akademisk (academic, academical, formal, graduate, scholarly). (various references) | |
Turkish | skolastik, ukalâca (cavalierly, donnish, priggish, sapiently, sesquipedalian, smart-alecky, stupidly), ortaçağ alimi, okul ile ilgili, eğitimle ilgili (educational), bilimsel yöntemlerle çalışan kimse. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | схоластичний (doctrinaire, doctrinarian), схоласт (doctrinaire, doctrinarian, dunce, schoolman), учений (boffin, bookish, book-wise, highbrow, learned, savant, scholar, scholarly), учительський. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nh triết học kinh viện (school divine). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "scholastic": scholastically, scholasticate, scholasticates, scholasticism, scholasticisms, scholastics. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "scholastic": interscholastic. (additional references) | |
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"Scholastic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Schilacci, schlattli, schloastic, schocastic, scholartic, scholastica, Scholastikia, scholatic, schotastic, scolastic, skilastic. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "scholastic" (pronounced skula"stik) |
| 9 | s k u l a" s t i k | interscholastic. |
| 7 | -u l a" s t i k | elastic, inelastic. |
| 6 | -l a" s t i k | iconoclastic, plastic, thermoplastic. |
| 5 | -a" s t i k | bombastic, drastic, dynastic, ecclesiastic, enthusiastic, fantastic, gymnastic, monastic, onomastic, sarcastic, unenthusiastic. |
| 4 | -s t i k | acoustic, agnostic, altruistic, anachronistic, antagonistic, artistic, atavistic, atheistic, autistic, ballistic, capitalistic, caustic, characteristic, chauvinistic, coloristic, cystic, deterministic, diagnostic, domestic, drumstick, dualistic, euphemistic, evangelistic, expressionistic, fatalistic, feudalistic, futuristic, hedonistic, holistic, humanistic, idealistic, imperialistic, impressionistic, individualistic, jingoistic, journalistic, legalistic, linguistic, logistic, majestic, masochistic, materialistic, mechanistic, militaristic, monopolistic, moralistic, mystic, narcissistic, nationalistic, naturalistic, novelistic, oligopolistic, opportunistic, optimistic, pantheistic, paternalistic, patristic, pessimistic, pluralistic, polytheistic, primitivistic, propagandistic, puristic, realistic, relativistic, ritualistic, rustic, sadistic, sensationalistic, simplistic, socialistic, statistic, stylistic, surrealistic, synergistic, terroristic, uncharacteristic, unrealistic, voyeuristic. |
| 3 | -t i k | acetic, acrobatic, aerobatic, aesthetic, alphabetic, amniotic, analytic, anesthetic, Antarctic, antibiotic, antic, anticlimactic, antiseptic, aortic, apathetic, apocalyptic, apologetic, apoplectic, aquatic, arctic, aristocratic, arithmetic, aromatic, arthritic, ascetic, asthmatic, astronautic, asymptomatic, athletic, attic, authentic, autocratic, automatic, axiomatic, bureaucratic, catalytic, cathartic, chaotic, charismatic, chiropractic, cinematic, climactic, climatic, cosmetic, critic, cryptic, cultic, democratic, dendritic, despotic, diabetic, diagrammatic, dialectic, diamagnetic, didactic, dietetic, diplomatic, diuretic, dogmatic, dramatic, eclectic, ecliptic, ecstatic, electrolytic, electromagnetic, electrostatic, emblematic, emetic, empathetic, emphatic, energetic, enigmatic, enzymatic, epigenetic, epileptic, erotic, erratic, exotic, extragalactic, fanatic, ferromagnetic, fiberoptic, frantic, frenetic, galactic, genetic, geomagnetic, gigantic, granitic, halophytic, hectic, hemolytic, hepatic, heretic, hermaphroditic, homeostatic, homiletic, hyperkinetic, hypnotic, idiomatic, idiosyncratic, idiotic, kinesthetic, kinetic, lactic, lymphatic, magnetic, mathematic, melodramatic, monochromatic, narcotic, neritic, neurotic, numismatic, operatic, optic, orthodontic, pancreatic, paralytic, paramagnetic, parasitic, parasympathetic, parthenogenetic, pathetic, patriotic, pectic, pedantic, peptic, peripatetic, phonetic, phosphatic, pneumatic, poetic, porphyritic, posttraumatic, pragmatic, prismatic, problematic, programmatic, prophetic, prophylactic, prostatic, prosthetic, psychoanalytic, psychosomatic, psychotherapeutic, psychotic, quixotic, rheumatic, robotic, romantic, schematic, semantic, semiautomatic, semiotic, septic, skeptic, static, sycophantic, symbiotic, sympathetic, symptomatic, synthetic, systematic, tactic, technocratic, thematic, theocratic, therapeutic, thrombolytic, transatlantic, traumatic, triptych, unapologetic, unauthentic, undemocratic, undiplomatic, unpatriotic, unsympathetic. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-h-i-l-o-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: catholics, scholiast. | |
-2 letters: catholic, classico, clastics, isotachs. | |
-3 letters: accosts, calicos, chaotic, chitals, citolas, classic, clastic, coltish, holists, isotach, saltish, scholia, scotias, socials, stoical, tahsils. | |
-4 letters: accost, ascots, assoil, calico, chalot, chicos, chital, ciscos, citola, clachs, clasts, cloths, coacts, coasts, coatis, coital, colics, costal, hoists, holist, hostas, lactic, laichs, lathis, latish, lichts, lithos, lochia, lotahs. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-h-i-l-o-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: scholastics, scholiastic. | |
+2 letters: catholicoses. | |
+3 letters: cytochalasins, scholasticate, scholasticism. | |
+4 letters: clavichordists, scholastically, scholasticates, scholasticisms, stochastically. | |
+5 letters: accomplishments, interscholastic, masochistically, sociohistorical, thalassocracies. | |
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