schoolman

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SCHOOL'MAN, noun [See Man.] 1. A man versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity. Unlearn'd, he knew no schoolman's subtil art. 2. A writer of scholastic divinity or philosophy. Let subtil schoolmen teach these friends to fight.
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