scholastic

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Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
noun a Scholastic philosopher or theologian
adjective of or relating to schools

Borrowed from Middle French scholastique, from Latin scholasticus, from Ancient Greek σχολαστικός (skholastikós).

(See 1919.) (H.) *Scholastic Fourth. — The best short stories of 1920, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
Thus he was led naturally to the philosophic books in his father's library,--to Plato and to Aristotle, to the Scholastics. — Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical Exposition, John Dewey
Afterwards he brought in Josephine, and E. W. B. Childers (rather deeply lined in the jaws by daylight), and the Little Wonder of Scholastic Equitation, and in a word, all the company. — Hard Times, Charles Dickens

pedant, bookworm

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