Schoolmen

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

  Schoolman \School"man`\, n.; pl. {Schoolmen}.
     One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of
     school divinity.
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     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 mediaeval universities and schools of
           divinity.
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