scholasticism

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scholasticism - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Scholasticism \Scho*las"ti*cism\, n.
     The method or subtilties of the schools of philosophy;
     scholastic formality; scholastic doctrines or philosophy.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The spirit of the old scholasticism . . . spurned
           laborious investigation and slow induction. --J. P.
                                                    Smith.
     [1913 Webster]

scholasticism - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Scholasticism
      n 1: the system of philosophy dominant in medieval Europe; based
           on Aristotle and the Church Fathers
      2: orthodoxy of a scholastic variety [syn: scholasticism,
         academicism, academism]