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Scholastic vs Scholiastic - What's the difference?

scholastic | scholiastic |

As adjectives the difference between scholastic and scholiastic

is that scholastic is (scholastic) while scholiastic is of or relating to a scholiast.

As a noun scholastic

is (scholastic).

scholastic

English

Alternative forms

* * (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (philosophy) a member of the medieval philosophical school of scholasticism; a medieval Christian Aristotelian

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to school; academic
  • * This award is for the greatest scholastic achievement by a graduating student.
  • (philosophy) Of or relating to the philosophical tradition of scholasticism
    • (John Locke)
  • Characterized by excessive subtlety, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.

    • Derived terms

    * scholasticism * scholastically

    Related terms

    * scholar * academic

    scholiastic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of or relating to a scholiast