meaning of scholastic

1. Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.
2.
Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the Middle Ages (see Schoolman); as, scholastic divinity or theology; scholastic philosophy.
3.
Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
4.
One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools.
5.
See the Note under Jesuit.
6.
a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit


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