a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
"His scholastic approach to the debate left no room for creativity, as he obsessively cited every rulebook paragraph while ignoring the actual argument."
a Scholastic philosopher or theologian
"The professor's lecture on medieval logic focused heavily on how St. Thomas Aquinas, a prominent scholastic, reconciled faith with reason."
A member of the medieval philosophical school of scholasticism; a medieval Christian Aristotelian.
"The dictionary shows that Scholastic and scholastic are just different ways to write the same word, depending on whether you start a new sentence or not."
Alternative letter-case form of scholastic
Of or relating to school; academic
"The user typed the word in lowercase but the dictionary shows it can also appear as Scholastic depending on context."
Alternative letter-case form of scholastic