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Scolastik, adj. Also: schol-. [17th c. Eng. scholastick (1641), L. scholastic-, of or belonging to a school, f. the Gk.] Following, or employing, the formal methods of the Schoolmen.Scolastic man, a theologian using these methods; a scholastic theologian. — a1568 Scott i 171.
Caus everye stait to thair vocatioun go, Scolastik men the scriptouris to descrywe 1581 Burne Disput. 9.
Thinkis thou then the doctrein of the scolastik theologiens treu? 1581 Hamilton Cath. Tr. in 1573-1600 Cath. Tr. (STS) 92/2.
This sillogisme … vsis argumentis that ar verie scholastik 1596 Dalr. II 13/31.
This man [sc. Duns Scotus] … meruellouslie amplifiet and helpet the scholastik theologie c1646 Craufurd Edinb. Univ. fol. 15.
He was of eminent knowledge in the dogmatik philosophie of Aristotle (the scholastik stile of disputing)