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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scholastic \Scho*las"tic\, adjective [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 {School}.]
1. Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning. --Sir K. Digby.
2. Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the Middle Ages (see {Schoolman}); as, scholastic divinity or theology; scholastic philosophy. --Locke.
3. Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scholastic \Scho*las"tic\, noun
1. One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools. --Milton.
2. (R. C. Ch.) See the Note under {Jesuit}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
scholastic
adjective
1: of or relating to schools; "scholastic year"
2: of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism; "scholastic philosophy"
noun
1: a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit [syn: {pedant}, {bookworm}]
2: a Scholastic philosopher or theologian
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
141 Moby Thesaurus words for "scholastic": Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Megarian, Stoic, abstruse, academic, academician, animist, animistic, atomistic, bibliophagic, bluestocking, book-fed, book-learned, book-loving, book-minded, book-read, book-wise, bookish, bookman, booky, canonist, civilized, classicist, classroom, clerk, collegiate, colossus of knowledge, conversant, cosmotheistic, cross-disciplinary, cultivated, cultured, deep, devoted to studies, diligent, divine, divinity student, donnish, dryasdust, eclectic, educated, empirical, encyclopedic, erudite, eudaemonistic, existential, extramural, formal, genius, giant of learning, graduate, graduate-professional, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, humanist, humanistic, idealistic, inkhorn, instrumentalist, interdisciplinary, interscholastic, intramural, learned, learned clerk, learned man, lettered, literary, literary man, literate, litterateur, lover of learning, man of learning, man of letters, mandarin, mastermind, materialistic, mechanistic, metaphysical, mine of information, monistic, naturalistic, nominalist, owlish, panlogistical, pansophic, pantheistic, pedagogical, pedantic, philologist, philologue, philomath, philosophe, philosopher, polyhistor, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, positivist, positivistic, postgraduate, pragmatic, pragmatist, preschool, professional, professorial, profound, pundit, rabbinic, rationalistic, realist, realistic, savant, scholar, scholarly, school, schoolish, schoolman, sensationalistic, student, studious, syncretistic, theistic, theologian, theological, theologician, theologist, theologizer, theologue, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic, university, utilitarian, versed, vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic, walking encyclopedia, wise
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