Word Meanings - SCHOLASTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning. Sir K. Digby. 2. Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the Middle Ages ; as, scholastic divinity

Additional info about word: SCHOLASTIC

1. Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning. Sir K. Digby. 2. Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the Middle Ages ; as, scholastic divinity or theology; scholastic philosophy. Locke. 3. Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.

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• SUITABILITY
  The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
• MIDDLE
  1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening.
• SCHOOL-TEACHER
  One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
• SUITRESS
  A female supplicant. Rowe.
• SUITING
  Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes.
• SCHOLARSHIP
  1. The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; erudition; learning. A man of my master's . . . great scholarship. Pope. 2. Literary education. Any other house of scholarship. Milton. 3. Maintenance for a scholar;
• LEARN
  linon, for lirnon, OHG. lirnen, lernen, G. lernen, fr. the root of AS. l to teach, OS. lerian, OHG.leran, G. lehren, Goth. laisjan, also Goth lais I know, leis acquainted ; all prob. from a root meaning, to go, go over, and hence, to learn; cf.
• SCHOOLSHIP
  A vessel employed as a nautical training school, in which naval apprentices receive their education at the expense of the state, and are trained for service as sailors. Also, a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts
• SCHOOLHOUSE
  A house appropriated for the use of a school or schools, or for instruction.
• SCHOOLROOM
  A room in which pupils are taught.
• MIDDLE-GROUND
  That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.
• MIDDLE-EARTH
  The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak.
• MIDDLEMAN
  The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers. (more info) 1. An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts,
• MIDDLER
  One of a middle or intermediate class in some schools and seminaries.
• SUIT
  1. To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word. Shak. 2. To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit. Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well. Dryden. Raise her notes to that sublime degree Which
• MIDDLE-AGE
  Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; mediæval.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• SCHOOLMAN
  One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity. Note: The schoolmen were philosophers and divines of the Middle Ages, esp. from the 11th century to the Reformation, who spent much time on points of nice and
• MIDDLEMOST
  Being in the middle, or nearest the middle; midmost.
• SCHOLARLY
  Like a scholar, or learned person; showing the qualities of a scholar; as, a scholarly essay or critique. -- adv.
• DEMISUIT
  A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the things, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.
• PUBLIC SCHOOL
  In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually
• HALF-LEARNED
  Imperfectly learned.
• CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
• UNSUIT
  Not to suit; to be unfit for. Quarles.
• JESUITOCRACY
  Government by Jesuits; also, the whole body of Jesuits in a country. C. Kingsley.
• NEO-SCHOLASTIC
  Of or pert. to Neo-Scholasticism.