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[syn: scholasticism, academicism, academism]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Scholasticism \Scho*las"ti*cism\, n.
The method or subtilties of the schools of philosophy;
scholastic formality; scholastic doctrines or philosophy.
[1913 Webster]
The spirit of the old scholasticism . . . spurned
laborious investigation and slow induction. --J. P.
Smith.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Scholasticism
n 1: the system of philosophy dominant in medieval Europe; based
on Aristotle and the Church Fathers
2: orthodoxy of a scholastic variety [syn: scholasticism,
academicism, academism]