Associations to the word «Schoolman»

Wiktionary

SCHOOLMAN, noun. Any of the medieval scholastics who taught logic, metaphysics, and theology in the early European universities
SCHOOLMAN, noun. An academician

Dictionary definition

SCHOOLMAN, noun. A scholar in one of the universities of the Middle Ages; versed in scholasticism.
SCHOOLMAN, noun. A scholar who is skilled in academic disputation.

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates