Crossword clues for schoolman
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Schoolman \School"man`\, n.; pl. Schoolmen. 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 abstract speculation. They were so called because they taught in the medi[ae]val universities and schools of divinity.
Wiktionary
n. An academician
WordNet
Usage examples of "schoolman".
Gallicisms and technical terminology are no longer proclaimed to the peasants, while the artisan is no more entertained with grandiloquent descriptions of the last night of Socrates, or with Ciceronian laudations of the Schoolmen.
In all created things, in all things not complete in themselves, in all save God, in whom there is no development possible, for He is, as say the schoolmen, most pure act, in whom there is no unactualized possibility, the same law holds good.
To be ingenuous, I must own it to be my opinion, that Locke was betrayed into this question by the Schoolmen, who, making use of undefined terms, draw out their disputes to a tedious length, without ever touching the point in question.
A mediæval Schoolman who saw one of his pupils stray away from the revealed authority of the Bible and Aristotle, that he might study things for himself, felt as uncomfortable as a loving mother who sees her young child approach a hot stove.
Denys were accepts by Saints and Schoolmen, and perhaps we should do well to follow them without curious questions and impertinent discussion.
These brilliant men, the so-called Scholasts or Schoolmen, were really very intelligent, but they had obtained their information exclusively from books, and never from actual observation.
The schoolmen of the Middle Ages had not been interested in this mysterious ``electric'' power.
Aristotle's work upon methods of thinking carried the science of Logic to a level at which it remained for fifteen hundred years or more, until the mediaeval schoolmen took up the ancient questions again.
What need had they of him or of Adam, to help them to duel with love and Latin across a room, like a couple of arid schoolmen trying to out-pun each other?