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   Scho·las·tic

   /skəˈlastik/

   

   adjective

   • 1. of or concerning schools and education: "scholastic achievement" Similar academiceducationalschoolscholarly
   • ▪ relating to secondary schools: US "scholastic sports events"
   • 2. relating to or characteristic of medieval scholasticism.
   • ▪ typical of scholasticism in being pedantic or overly subtle: "to distinguish between them is little more than a scholastic exercise" Similar scholarlylearnedacademiceruditedonnishpedanticover-subtleoverprecisehairsplittingprecisionistinformal:nitpickingarchaic:overnice

   noun

   • 1. an adherent of scholasticism; a schoolman. historical
   • 2. (in the Roman Catholic Church) a member of a religious order, especially the Society of Jesus, who is between the novitiate and the priesthood.

   Word Origin late 16th century (in scholastic (sense 2 of the adjective)): via Latin from Greek skholastikos ‘studious’, from skholazein ‘be at leisure to study’, from skholē (see school1).

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   • 1. scholastically adverb

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   What does scholastic mean?

   • of or relating to schools, scholars, or education: scholastic attainments. of or relating to secondary education or schools: a scholastic meet. pedantic. of or relating to the medieval schoolmen. ( sometimes initial capital letter) a schoolman, a disciple of the schoolmen, or an adherent of scholasticism. a pedantic person.

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   What is Christian scholasticism?

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   What is a scholastic test?

   • Created in 1925, it was designed not be a test of achievement in school subjects but the ability to apply knowledge to discrete situations. "Scholastic" refers to ability in school, but the emphasis here was on "aptitude" – the ability to learn and apply knowledge to different situations, rather than to memorize facts.

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   What does scholastic achievement mean?

   • Your scholastic achievement or ability is your academic achievement or ability while you are at school. ...the values which encouraged her scholastic achievement. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers 1. 3. 4. 5. 7. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition.

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