school divinityn.
/ˈskuːl dᵻˌvɪnᵻti/, U.S. /ˈskul dəˌvɪnᵻdi/ Now chiefly historical.
Scholastic theology, esp. as taught or studied by the medieval schoolmen. Cf. school divine n.
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scholasticism1693
c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 59 (MED) Ech man..is mych habundaunt in natural philosofie, methafisik and scole dyuynyte.
1555 N. Ridley Brief Declar. Lordes Supper sig. D3v The common rules of schole diuinitie.
1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits ix. 124 The truth of School-diuinitie abhorreth manie words.
1616 S. Price Ephesus Warning 48 It is a true axiome in schoole-Diuinity, that..Whatsoeuer is spoken of God bodily, must be vnderstood figuratiuely.
1679 T. Hobbes Behemoth 39 The first Rector of the University of Paris..was Peter Lombard, who first brought in to them the Learning called School-Divinity.
1710 J. Addison Whig Examiner No. 4. ⁋1 The most abstruse and profound tract of school-divinity.
1792 A. Geddes Norfolk Tale i. 15 Five Douay-priests, arm'd cap-a-pee With scraps of School-divinity.
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iii. 140 His [sc. Dante's] education was the best then going; much school-divinity, Aristotelean logic, some Latin classics.
1887 Contemp. Rev. Feb. 199 The objections so exhaustively stated and victoriously answered in the textbooks of school divinity.
1920 H. E. Beers Connecticut Wits 200 Cowley..crams his verse with allusions and images drawn from physics, metaphysics,..school divinity, logic, grammar, and constitutional law.
1996 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 57 229 Hobbes recognized Wallis's attack as directed at..his own objections to school divinity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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