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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Scholastic \Scho*las"tic\, a. [L. scholasticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to
     have leisure, to give lectures, to keep a school, from ?
     leisure, a lecture, a school: cf. F. scholastique,
     scolastique. See {School}.]
     1. Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or
        schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride;


        scholastic learning. --Sir K. Digby.
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     2. Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the
        Middle Ages (see {Schoolman}); as, scholastic divinity or
        theology; scholastic philosophy. --Locke.
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     3. Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly
        minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Scholastic \Scho*las"tic\, n.
     1. One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the
        schools. --Milton.
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     2. (R. C. Ch.) See the Note under {Jesuit}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  scholastic
       adj 1: of or relating to schools; "scholastic year"
       2: of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of
          scholasticism; "scholastic philosophy"
       n 1: a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book
            learning than they merit [syn: {pedant}, {bookworm}]
       2: a Scholastic philosopher or theologian

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  141 Moby Thesaurus words for "scholastic":
     Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Megarian, Stoic, abstruse, academic,
     academician, animist, animistic, atomistic, bibliophagic,
     bluestocking, book-fed, book-learned, book-loving, book-minded,
     book-read, book-wise, bookish, bookman, booky, canonist, civilized,
     classicist, classroom, clerk, collegiate, colossus of knowledge,
     conversant, cosmotheistic, cross-disciplinary, cultivated,
     cultured, deep, devoted to studies, diligent, divine,
     divinity student, donnish, dryasdust, eclectic, educated,
     empirical, encyclopedic, erudite, eudaemonistic, existential,
     extramural, formal, genius, giant of learning, graduate,
     graduate-professional, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, humanist,
     humanistic, idealistic, inkhorn, instrumentalist,
     interdisciplinary, interscholastic, intramural, learned,
     learned clerk, learned man, lettered, literary, literary man,
     literate, litterateur, lover of learning, man of learning,
     man of letters, mandarin, mastermind, materialistic, mechanistic,
     metaphysical, mine of information, monistic, naturalistic,
     nominalist, owlish, panlogistical, pansophic, pantheistic,
     pedagogical, pedantic, philologist, philologue, philomath,
     philosophe, philosopher, polyhistor, polyhistoric, polymath,
     polymathic, positivist, positivistic, postgraduate, pragmatic,
     pragmatist, preschool, professional, professorial, profound,
     pundit, rabbinic, rationalistic, realist, realistic, savant,
     scholar, scholarly, school, schoolish, schoolman, sensationalistic,
     student, studious, syncretistic, theistic, theologian, theological,
     theologician, theologist, theologizer, theologue,
     transcendentalist, transcendentalistic, university, utilitarian,
     versed, vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic,
     walking encyclopedia, wise
  
  

















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