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† schoˈlastical, a. and n. Obs.
Also 5–6 sco-, 6 sko-.
[Formed as prec. + -ical.]
A. adj.
1. Story Scholastical: tr. med.L. Historia Scholastica, the title of a work by Petrus Comestor.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) IV. 367 Also hit is redde in the story scolasticalle, that [etc.].
2. Following the teaching of the Schoolmen; pertaining to Scholasticism. = scholastic A. 2.
1551Cranmer Answ. to Gardiner iii. 73 So you condemn of madnes not only al y⊇ scholastical doctors..but also your own former saieng. 1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 155 Which scholasticall subtilities plaine suiteres doe not love. 1639Rouse Heav. Univ. ii. (1702) 18 The Scholastical Commentators living in those which are called the dark ages of the Church. 1669Barrow Expos. Creed (1697) 14 margin, This scholastical acception is not ancient.
3. Following the methods of the ‘schools’; befitting the school, academic; in bad sense, pedantic, unduly formal or subtle.
1531Frith Judgm. Tracy Wks. (1573) 79 A proper distinction, by the whiche you may escape the scholasticall snares and mases. 1538Starkey England i. iii. 69 Thys vnyuersal and scolastycal consyderatyon of a veray and true commyn wele lytyl schal profyte. a1583Sir H. Gilbert Q. Eliz. Achad. (1869) 2 For of what Comodity such vse of arte wilbe in our tounge may partely be seene by the scholasticall rawnesse of some newly Commen from the vniuersities. 1614Raleigh Hist. World iv. vii. §2. 298 A matter of such consequence, as was not to bee omitted, in regard of any scholasticall disputation. a1626Bacon Controv. Ch. Eng. Resuscit. (1657) 177, I speak not of the vain, Scholasticall, Manner of Preaching. 1679Evelyn Diary 4 Apr., The Bishop of Gloucester preach'd, in a manner very like Bishop Andrews, full of divisions, and scholastical, and that with much quicknesse. 1793D'Israeli Cur. Lit. II. 37 Terms of art and scholastical expressions.
4. Belonging or attached to a place of learning; academic. = scholastic A. 3.
1536Boorde Let. in Introd. Knowl. (1870) 59 In the partes þat I am yn, þe kynges grace hath many, ȝe, (& in maner) all maner of persons (exceppt some skolastycall men) þat be hys aduersarys. 1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. Pref. v. §1 The fauour of proposing there in conuenient sort whatsoeuer ye can obiect (which thing my selfe haue knowen them [sc. the schools in universities] to graunt of Scholasticall courtesie vnto strangers) neither hath (as I thinke) nor euer will (I presume) be denied you. 1612Brinsley Lud. Lit. xiii. 174 And the rather haue I bin careful to seek out the easiest and plainest way, that I might allure & draw on my schollars in this exercise,..to proceed as in a scholasticall play, with vnderstanding, loue and delight. a1672Wood Life (O.H.S.) I. 129 A. W...did never afterwards care to hear of New Coll. school to have given him scholastical education but applied all that he had to that of Thame. 1673Ray Journ. Low C. 36 No Scholastical Habits as Gowns or Caps worn by the Students [in Leyden].
†B. n. = scholastic B. 1. Obs. rare—1.
1565Jewel Repl. Harding 259 There is Scotus againste Thomas:..the Nominales against the Reales: the Scholasticalles against the Canonistes. |