Definitions for Schoolman

Schoolman school·man

Spelling: [skool-muh n, -man]
IPA: /ˈskul mən, -ˌmæn/

Schoolman is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 403 anagrams from letters in Schoolman (achlmnoos).

Definitions for Schoolman

noun

  1. a person versed in scholastic learning or engaged in scholastic pursuits.
  2. (sometimes initial capital letter) a master in one of the schools or universities of the Middle Ages; one of the medieval writers who dealt with theology and philosophy after the methods of scholasticism.

Origin of Schoolman

First recorded in 1530-40; school1 + man1

Examples for Schoolman

He is as prioristic as a medieval schoolman, in spite of his scientific pose.

schoolman after schoolman had been occupied with formal trifles.

The person who renewed the contest was Eck the schoolman, Luther's old friend, and the author of the Obelisks.

William of Auvergne is the first schoolman who criticizes the doctrines of Averroes, not, however, by name.

Such is the proposition of the schoolman that Alexander could not have subdued any countries without an army.

As a schoolman he cannot escape from metaphysical subtleties—he takes the kiss of the bridegroom as a symbol of the incarnation.

A schoolman who examined me would be pardoned (by me, at all events) for calling me an ignoramus of no education whatever.

In this view the great schoolman but follows the teachings of St. Augustine.

As a schoolman he was a Nominalist and received the title of the Invincible Doctor.

He seems to have been self-taught rather than to have been a schoolman.

Word Value for Schoolman
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