schoolman
schoolman is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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 mediæval universities and schools of divinity.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- academician
- academist
- admirable
- and
- antiquarian
- antiquary
- archaeologist
- article
- belief
- believer
- bibliomaniac
- bibliophile
- bigwig
- bluestocking
- body
- bookworm
- canonist
- catholic
- clerk
- collective
- community
- confession
- connoisseur
- creed
- declaration
- denomination
- denominational
- divine
- divinity
- doctor
- doctrinaire
- doctrine
- don
- education
- evangelical
- faith
- faithful
- feet
- fellow
- genius
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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