Definition: Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or
schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic
learning.
Definition: Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the
Middle Ages (see Schoolman); as, scholastic divinity or theology;
scholastic philosophy.
Definition: Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or
needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
Definition: One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the
schools.
Definition: See the Note under Jesuit.