The rules of demeanor and the scholastic arrangements in them are worthy of observation.

He made wonderful advances in scholastic learning.

Still, in so far as it is constructed roughly on the same scheme and presupposes the same philosophy, and (were it not a deepening of the roots rather than an extension of the branches) might almost be regarded as a development of scholasticism, it may rightly be called "scholastic" to distinguish it, say, from such a work as the Grammar of Assent.]

The Scholastic Grouping of Poetic, Rhetoric and Logic 2.

The Thomistic philosophy which included rhetoric and poetic in logic, whereas Aristotle had classified the three arts as coördinate within the same category, seems, says Spingarn, "to have been accepted by the scholastic philosophers of the middle ages."

The appearance of this scholastic grouping in the renaissance criticism is parallel with a gradual abandonment of the popular mediaeval preoccupation with allegory, in favor of the classical view which considered example as the best vehicle for moral improvement.

The Scholastic Grouping of Poetic, Rhetoric and Logic

The scholastic grouping of logic, rhetoric, and poetic which Savonarola derived from St. Thomas Aquinas persisted for four centuries, rejuvenated by contact with the richer classical scholarship of the renaissance.

The emphasis on the example as the means of attaining this end was further derived from scholastic philosophy which, as has been shown, classed logic, rhetoric, and poetic together as instruments for attaining truth and improving the morality of the state.

Furthermore, according to this scholastic view, the three arts differed only as they utilized different means to attain this end.

The general reader will, I hope, be gratified to find that its pages display no pedantic or scholastic traits.

Prior to the erection of the church, scholastic work was carried on in some cottages on the north side of what is now termed New Hall-lane.

They came down upon him with the whole array of scholastic learning.

Doctor Eck was superior to Luther in reputation, in dialectical skill, in scholastic learning.

Cranmer, though a scholastic, seems to have perceived that nothing is more misleading and uncertain and unsatisfactory than any truth pushed out to its severest logical conclusions without reference to other truths which have for their support the same divine authority.

All this business was a miserable quibble, a tissue of scholastic technicalities.

The famous Dominicans and Franciscans, who had rallied to the defence of the Papacy three centuries before,those missionary orders that had filled the best pulpits and the highest chairs of philosophy in the scholastic age,had become inexhaustible subjects of sarcasm and mockery, for they were peddling relics and indulgences, and quarrelling among themselves.

The object of this institution was to furnish scholastic instruction to the poor, and to prepare some of them for the ministry.

* You will pardon me, gentlemen, if I say I think that we have need of a more rigorous scholastic rule; such an asceticism, I mean, as only the hardihood and devotion of the scholar himself can enforce.

It is doubtless the custom of historical writers generally to enrich, or burden, their works with all the references they can find, to the delight of critics who glory in dulness; but this, after all, may be a mere scholastic fashion.

Adj. teaching &c v.; taught &c v.; educational; scholastic, academic, doctrinal; disciplinal^; instructive, instructional, didactic; propaedeutic^, propaedeutical^. Phr.

studious; scholastic, scholarly; teachable; docile &c (willing) 602; apt &c 698, industrious &c 682.

Adj. scholastic, academic, collegiate; educational.

The training, especially of officers, becomes increasingly scholastic.

But Walpole's was not merely a scholastic education: he was destined for the lawand, on going up to Cambridge, was obliged to attend lectures on civil law.