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Coloq. Greek schism (Eccl.), the separation of the Greek and Roman churches. -- Coloq. Great schism , or Coloq. Western schism (Eccl.) a schism in the Roman church in the latter part of the 14th century, on account of rival claimants to the papal throne. -- Coloq. Schism act (Law), an act of the English Parliament requiring all teachers to conform to the Established Church, -- passed in 1714, repealed in 1719.
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Schisma (?), n. [L., a split, separation, Gr. schisma: cf. F. schisma. See .] (Anc. Mus.) An interval equal to half a comma.
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Schismatic (sĭzmătĭk; so nearly all orthoëpists), a. [L. schismaticus, Gr. �: cf. F. schismatique.] Of or pertaining to schism; implying schism; partaking of the nature of schism; tending to schism; as, schismatic opinions or proposals.
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Schismatic (?; 277), n. One who creates or takes part in schism; one who separates from an established church or religious communion on account of a difference of opinion. “They were popularly classed together as canting schismatics.” Macaulay.
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Syn. -- Heretic; partisan. See .
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Schismatical (?), a. Same as . -- Schismatically, adv. -- Schismaticalness, n.
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Schismatize (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Schismatized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Schismatizing (?).] [Cf. F. schismatiser.] To take part in schism; to make a breach of communion in the church.
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Schismless (?), a. Free from schism.
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Schist (shĭst), n. [Gr. � divided, divisible, fr. � to divide: cf. F. schiste. See .] (Geol.) Any crystalline rock having a foliated structure (see ) and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates. The common kinds are mica schist, and hornblendic schist, consisting chiefly of quartz with mica or hornblende and often feldspar.
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Schistaceous (?), a. Of a slate color.
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Schistic (?), a. Schistose.
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{ Schistose (?; 277), Schistous (?), } a. [Cf. F. schisteux.] (Geol.) Of or pertaining to schist; having the structure of a schist.
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Schistosity (?), n. [Cf. F. schistosité.] (Geol.) The quality or state of being schistose.
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Schizo- (?). [Gr. � to split, cleave.] A combining form denoting division or cleavage; as, schizogenesis, reproduction by fission or cell division.
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Schizocarp (?), n. [Schizo- + Gr. � fruit.] (Bot.) A dry fruit which splits at maturity into several closed one-seeded portions.
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Schizocœle (?), n. [Schizo- + Gr. � hollow.] (Anat.) See .
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Schizocœlous (?), a. (Zoöl.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a schizocœle.
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Schizogenesis (?), n. [Schizo- + genesis.] (Biol.) Reproduction by fission. Haeckel.
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Schizognath (?), n. [See .] (Zoöl.) Any bird with a schizognathous palate.
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Schizognathæ (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) The schizognathous birds.
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Schizognathism (?), n. (Zoöl.) The condition of having a schizognathous palate.
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Schizognathous (?), a. [Schizo- + Gr. � the jaw.] (Zoöl.) Having the maxillo-palatine bones separate from each other and from the vomer, which is pointed in front, as in the gulls, snipes, grouse, and many other birds.
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Schizomycetes (?), n. pl., [NL., fr. Gr. � to split + �, -�, a fungus.] (Biol.) An order of Schizophyta, including the so-called fission fungi, or bacteria. See , in the Supplement.
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Schizonemertea (?), n. pl. [NL. See , and .] (Zoöl.) A group of nemerteans comprising those having a deep slit along each side of the head. See Illust. in Appendix.
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Schizont (skīzŏnt or skīzŏnt), n. [Gr. �, �, p.pr., cleaving.] (Zoöl.) In certain Sporozoa, a cell formed by the growth of a sporozoite or merozoite (in a cell or corpuscle of the host) which segment by superficial cleavage, without encystment or conjugation, into merozoites.
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Schizopelmous (?), a. [Schizo- + Gr. pelma the sole of the foot.] (Zoöl.) Having the two flexor tendons of the toes entirely separate, and the flexor hallucis going to the first toe only.
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Schizophyte (?), n. [Schizo- + Gr. � a plant.] (Biol.) One of a class of vegetable organisms, in the classification of Cohn, which includes all of the inferior forms that multiply by fission, whether they contain chlorophyll or not.
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Schizopod (?; 277), n. (Zoöl.) one of the Schizopoda. Also used adjectively.
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{ Schizopod (?; 277), Schizopodous (?), } a. Of or pertaining to a schizopod, or the Schizopoda.
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Schizopoda (?), n. pl., [NL. See , and .] (Zoöl.) A division of shrimplike Thoracostraca in which each of the thoracic legs has a long fringed upper branch (exopodite) for swimming.
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Schizorhinal (?), a. [Schizo- + rhinal.] 1. (Anat.) Having the nasal bones separate.
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2. (Zoöl.) Having the anterior nostrils prolonged backward in the form of a slit.
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Schlich (?), n. [G.; akin to LG. slick mud, D. slijk, MHG. slīch.] (Metal.) The finer portion of a crushed ore, as of gold, lead, or tin, separated by the water in certain wet processes. [Written also slich, slick.]
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Schmelze (?), n. [G. schmelz, schmelzglas.] A kind of glass of a red or ruby color, made in Bohemia.
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Schnapps (?), n. [G., a dram of spirits.] Holland gin. [U.S.]
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Schneiderian (�), a. (Anat.) Discovered or described by C. V. Schneider, a German anatomist of the seventeenth century.
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Coloq. Schneiderian membrane , the mucous membrane which lines the nasal chambers; the pituitary membrane.
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Schnorrer (?), n. [Yiddish, fr. G. schnurrer, fr. schnurren to hum, whir, hence, from the sound of the musical instrument used by strolling beggars, to beg.] Among the Jews, a beggar.
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Schoharie grit (?). (Geol.) The formation belonging to the middle of the three subdivisions of the Corniferous period in the American Devonian system; -- so called from Schoharie, in New York, where it occurs. See the Chart of .
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Scholar (?), n. [OE. scoler, AS. scōlere, fr. L. scholaris belonging to a school, fr. schola a school. See .] 1. One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.
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I am no breeching scholar in the schools. Shak.
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2. One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in any branch, or in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant. Shak. Locke.
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3. A man of books. Bacon.
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4. In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.
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Syn. -- Pupil; learner; disciple. -- , . Scholar refers to the instruction, and pupil to the care and government, of a teacher. A scholar is one who is under instruction; a pupil is one who is under the immediate and personal care of an instructor; hence we speak of a bright scholar, and an obedient pupil.
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Scholarity (?), n. [OF. scholarité, or LL. scholaritas.] Scholarship. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
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Scholarlike (?), a. Scholarly. Bacon.
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Scholarly, a. Like a scholar, or learned person; showing the qualities of a scholar; as, a scholarly essay or critique. -- adv. In a scholarly manner.
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Scholarship, n. 1. The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; erudition; learning.
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A man of my master's . . . great scholarship. Pope.
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2. Literary education. [R.]
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Any other house of scholarship. Milton.
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3. Maintenance for a scholar; a foundation for the support of a student. T. Warton.
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Syn. -- Learning; erudition; knowledge.
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Scholastic (?), a. [L. scholasticus, Gr. �, fr. � to have leisure, to give lectures, to keep a school, from � leisure, a lecture, a school: cf. F. scholastique, scolastique. See .] 1. Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning. Sir K. Digby.
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2. Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the Middle Ages (see ); as, scholastic divinity or theology; scholastic philosophy. Locke.
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3. Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
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Scholastic, n. 1. One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools. Milton.
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2. (R. C. Ch.) See the Note under .
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Scholastical (?), a. & n. Scholastic.
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Scholastically, adv. In a scholastic manner.
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Scholasticism (?), n. The method or subtilties of the schools of philosophy; scholastic formality; scholastic doctrines or philosophy.
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The spirit of the old scholasticism . . . spurned laborious investigation and slow induction. J. P. Smith.
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Scholia (?), n. pl. See .
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Scholiast (?), n. [Gr. �, fr. � a scholium: cf. F. scoliate. See .] A maker of scholia; a commentator or annotator.
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No . . . quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts . . . ever marred the effect of his grave temperate discourses. Macaulay.
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Scholiastic (?), a. Of or pertaining to a scholiast, or his pursuits. Swift.
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Scholiaze (?), v. i. [Cf. Gr. �.] To write scholia. [Obs.] Milton.
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Scholical (?), a. [L. scholicus, Gr. �, fr. �. See .] Scholastic. [Obs.] Hales.
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Scholion (?), n. [NL.] A scholium.
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A judgment which follows immediately from another is sometimes called a corollary, or consectary . . . One which illustrates the science where it appears, but is not an integral part of it, is a scholion. Abp. Thomson (Laws of Thought).
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Scholium (?), n.; pl. L. Scholia (#), E. Scholiums (#). [NL., fr. Gr. �, fr. �. See .] 1. A marginal annotation; an explanatory remark or comment; specifically, an explanatory comment on the text of a classic author by an early grammarian.
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2. A remark or observation subjoined to a demonstration or a train of reasoning.
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Scholy (?), n. A scholium. [Obs.] Hooker.
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Scholy (?), v. i. & t. To write scholia; to annotate. [Obs.]
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School (?), n. [For shoal a crowd; prob. confused with school for learning.] A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.
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School, n. [OE. scole, AS. sc�lu, L. schola, Gr. � leisure, that in which leisure is employed, disputation, lecture, a school, probably from the same root as �, the original sense being perhaps, a stopping, a resting. See .] 1. A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets.
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Disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. Acts xix. 9.
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2. A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school.
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As he sat in the school at his primer. Chaucer.
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3. A session of an institution of instruction.
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How now, Sir Hugh! No school to-day? Shak.
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4. One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterized by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning.
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At Cambridge the philosophy of Descartes was still dominant in the schools. Macaulay.
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5. The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held.
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6. An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils.
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What is the great community of Christians, but one of the innumerable schools in the vast plan which God has instituted for the education of various intelligences? Buckminster.
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7. The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc.
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Let no man be less confident in his faith . . . by reason of any difference in the several schools of Christians. Jer. Taylor.
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8. The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school.
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His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools. A. S. Hardy.
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9. Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience.
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Coloq. Boarding school , Coloq. Common school , Coloq. District school , Coloq. Normal school , etc. See under , , , etc. -- Coloq. High school , a free public school nearest the rank of a college. [U. S.] -- Coloq. School board , a corporation established by law in every borough or parish in England, and elected by the burgesses or ratepayers, with the duty of providing public school accommodation for all children in their district. -- Coloq. School committee , Coloq. School board , an elected committee of citizens having charge and care of the public schools in any district, town, or city, and responsible for control of the money appropriated for school purposes. [U. S.] -- Coloq. School days , the period in which youth are sent to school. -- Coloq. School district , a division of a town or city for establishing and conducting schools. [U.S.] -- Coloq. Sunday school , or Coloq. Sabbath school , a school held on Sunday for study of the Bible and for religious instruction; the pupils, or the teachers and pupils, of such a school, collectively.
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School, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Schooled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Schooling.] 1. To train in an institution of learning; to educate at a school; to teach.
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He's gentle, never schooled, and yet learned. Shak.
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2. To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic discipline; to train.
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It now remains for you to school your child,
And ask why God's Anointed be reviled. Dryden.
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The mother, while loving her child with the intensity of a sole affection, had schooled herself to hope for little other return than the waywardness of an April breeze. Hawthorne.
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Schoolbook (?), n. A book used in schools for learning lessons.
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Schoolboy (?), n. A boy belonging to, or attending, a school.
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Schooldame (?). n. A schoolmistress.
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Schoolery (�), n. Something taught; precepts; schooling. [Obs.] Spenser.
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Schoolfellow (?), n. One bred at the same school; an associate in school.
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Schoolgirl (?), n. A girl belonging to, or attending, a school.
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Schoolhouse (?), n. A house appropriated for the use of a school or schools, or for instruction.
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Schooling, n. 1. Instruction in school; tuition; education in an institution of learning; act of teaching.
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2. Discipline; reproof; reprimand; as, he gave his son a good schooling. Sir W. Scott.
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3. Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.
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Schooling, a. [See a shoal.] (Zoöl.) Collecting or running in schools or shoals.
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Schooling species like the herring and menhaden. G. B. Goode.
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Schoolma'am (?), n. A schoolmistress. [Colloq.U.S.]
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Schoolmaid (?), n. A schoolgirl. Shak.
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Schoolman (?), n.; pl. Schoolmen (�). One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity.
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☞ The schoolmen were philosophers and divines of the Middle Ages, esp. from the 11th century to the Reformation, who spent much time on points of nice and abstract speculation. They were so called because they taught in the mediæval universities and schools of divinity.
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Schoolmaster (?), n. 1. The man who presides over and teaches a school; a male teacher of a school.
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Let the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do nothing in this age. There is another personage abroad, -- a person less imposing, -- in the eyes of some, perhaps, insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad; and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array. Brougham.
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2. One who, or that which, disciplines and directs.
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The law was our schoolmaster, to bring us unto Christ. Gal. iii. 24.
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