the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A master in one of the medieval universities or other schools; especially, a Christian Peripatetic of the middle ages; a scholastic. See scholasticism.
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n. a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation
n. a scholar in one of the universities of the Middle Ages; versed in scholasticism
Word Usage
"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."