scholastic
adjective
[ skəˈlastɪk ]
• of or concerning schools and education.
• "scholastic achievement"
• relating to medieval scholasticism.
scholastic
noun
• an adherent of scholasticism; a schoolman.
• (in the Roman Catholic Church) a member of a religious order, especially the Society of Jesus, who is between the novitiate and the priesthood.
Origin:
late 16th century (in scholastic (sense 2 of the adjective)): via Latin from Greek skholastikos ‘studious’, from skholazein ‘be at leisure to study’, from skholē (see school1).
