scholastic
pronunciation
How to pronounce scholastic in British English:
UK [skəˈlæstɪk]
How to pronounce scholastic in American English:
US [skəˈlæstɪk]
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- Noun:
- a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
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- Adjective:
- of or relating to schools
- of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism
Word Origin
- scholastic (adj.)
- 1590s, "of or pertaining to Scholastic theologians" (Churchmen in the Middle Ages whose theology and philosophy was based on Church Fathers and Aristotle), from Middle French scholastique (14c.), from Latin scholasticus "of a school," from Greek skholastikos "enjoying leisure; devoting one's leisure to learning," hence, as a noun, "a scholar," also in a bad sense, "a pedant; a simpleton," from skhola (see school (n.1)). In English, meaning "pertaining to schools or to school education" is from 1640s. As a noun from 1640s. Related: Scholastical (1530s in the "relating to a school" sense); scholastically.
Example
- 1. Or scholastic value in anything listed on that board .
- 2. Reinhold niebuhr has returned to the scholastic distinction more closely as regards both terminology and thesis .
- 3. The results of the experiments where scholastic performance was rewarded were uniformly disappointing .
- 4. The influences of scholastic seal calligraphers in qing dynasty on calligraphy .
- 5. As a student he edited the komsomol newspaper and was awarded one of only seven stalin scholarships for outstanding social and scholastic achievement .