Scholastic

a.	1.	Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.
	2.	Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the Middle Ages (see Schoolman); as, scholastic divinity or theology; scholastic philosophy.
	3.	Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
n.	1.	One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools.
	2.	(R. C. Ch.) See the Note under Jesuit.

Noun	1.	scholastic - a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit Synonyms: bookworm, pedant
	2.	Scholastic - a Scholastic philosopher or theologian
Adj.	1.	scholastic - of or relating to schools; "scholastic year"
	2.	scholastic - of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism; "scholastic philosophy"

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