Scholastic \Scho*las"tic\, a. [L. scholasticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to
have leisure, to give lectures, to keep a school, from ?
leisure, a lecture, a school: cf. F. scholastique,
scolastique. See School.]
1. Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or
schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride;
scholastic learning. --Sir K. Digby.
2. Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the
Middle Ages (see Schoolman); as, scholastic divinity or
theology; scholastic philosophy. --Locke.
3. Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly
minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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