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schoolman

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school⋅man

  [skool-muhn, -man]
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–noun, plural -men  [-muhn, -men] ,
1. a person versed in scholastic learning or engaged in scholastic pursuits.
2. (sometimes initial capital letter) a master in one of the schools or universities of the Middle Ages; one of the medieval writers who dealt with theology and philosophy after the methods of scholasticism.
Origin:
1530–40; school 1 + man 1
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school·man   (skōōl'mən)   
n.  

  1. A man who is a professional educator or scholar.

  2. Schoolman A medieval Scholastic scholar or philosopher.

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