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schoolman
CIDE DICTIONARY
schoolman, n.
One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity. [1913 Webster]
" 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 mediæval universities and schools of divinity." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
schoolman, n. (pl. -men)
1 hist. a teacher in a medieval European university.
2 RC Ch. hist. a theologian seeking to deal with religious doctrines by the rules of Aristotelian logic.
3 US a male teacher.
1 hist. a teacher in a medieval European university.
2 RC Ch. hist. a theologian seeking to deal with religious doctrines by the rules of Aristotelian logic.
3 US a male teacher.
THESAURUS
schoolman
academician, bookman, canonist, classicist, clerk, colossus of knowledge, divine, divinity student, genius, giant of learning, humanist, learned clerk, learned man, literary man, litterateur, lover of learning, man of learning, man of letters, mastermind, mine of information, philologist, philologue, philomath, philosophe, philosopher, polyhistor, polymath, pundit, savant, scholar, scholastic, student, theologian, theological, theologician, theologist, theologizer, theologue, walking encyclopediaROGET THESAURUS
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Theology
N theology (natural and revealed), theogony, theosophy, divinity, hagiology, hagiography, Caucasian mystery, monotheism, religion, religious persuasion, religious sect, religious denomination, creed, article of faith, declaration of faith, profession of faith, confession of faith, theologue, theologian, scholastic, divine, schoolman, canonist, theologist, the Fathers, theological, religious, denominational, sectarian.Scholar
N scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman, professor, graduate, wrangler, academician, academist, master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman, philosopher, master of math, scientist, clerk, sophist, sophister, linguist, glossolinguist, philologist, philologer, lexicographer, glossographer, grammarian, litterateur, literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti, fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi, Sanskritish, sinologist, sinologue, Mezzofanti, admirable Crichton, Mecaenas, bookworm, helluo librorum, bibliophile, bibliomaniac, bluestocking, bas-bleu, bigwig, learned Theban, don, Artium Baccalaureus, Artium Magister, learned man, literary man, homo multarum literarum, man of learning, man of letters, man of education, man of genius, antiquarian, antiquary, archaeologist, sage, pedant, doctrinaire, pedagogue, Dr, Pangloss, pantologist, criminologist, schoolboy, learned, brought up at the feet of Gamaliel, he was a scholar and a ripe and good one, the manifold linguist.For further exploring for "schoolman" in Webster Dictionary Online