Scholastic /(?)/

Scho·las·tic

Scholastic

a.
  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.

Scholastic

n.
  1. One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools.
  2. See the Note under Jesuit. (R. C. Ch.)