scholarch (skolark)

[ Among the stock were contained many compositions which the scholarchs , succe ors of Theophrastus at Athens, had neither po e ed nor known. Grote, Aristotle, ii. He died in 314, and was succeeded as scholarch by PoleEncyc. Brit., XXIV. 718. mon. scholasticism I'd sooner win two school-house matches than get the Balliol scholarship , any day. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 6. Victoria has not yet extended its public system to secondary education, except by giving many scholarships as the reward of merit to the best pupils of the primary schools. Sir C. W. Dilke , Probs. of Greater Britain, vi. 4. =Syn. 1. Learning, Erudition, etc. See literature. scholastic (sko-las'tik), a. and n. [F. scolas tique = Pr. escolastic = Sp. escolástico = Pg. escolastico = It. scolastico (cf. G. scholastisch, a.. scholastiker, n.), ticism. The Aristo tel i an philosophy, even in the hands of the master, was like a barren tree that conceals its want of fruit by profusion of leaves. But the scholastic ontology was much worse. What could be more trifling than disquisitions about the nature of angels, their modes of operation, their means of conversing? Hallam , Middle Ages, III. 429. The scholastic question which John of Salisbury propounds, Is it po ible for an archdeacon to be saved? Stubbs , Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 303. Hence-4. Coldly intellectual and unemotional; characterized by exce ive intellectual subtlety or by punctilious and dogmatic dist i net ions; formal; pedantic: said especially of the discu ion of religious truth. - Scholastic realist. See realist , 1.- Scholastic theology, that form of theology whose fundamental principle is that religious truth can be reduced to a complete philosophical system: ord i narily used to designate a theological system which has II. n. 1. A student or studious person; a scholar. become dogmatic or abstruse. See scholasticism. They despise all men as unexperienced scholastics who wait for an occasion before they speak. Steele, Tatler, No. 244. 2. A schoolman; a Christian Aristo tel i an; one of those who taught in European schools from the eleventh century to the Reformation, who There was an impre ion that this new-fangled scholar ism was a very sad matter indeed. Doran , Memorials of Great Towns, p. 225. ( Davies .) scholarityt (sko-lar'i-ti), n. [ scholar + -i-ty.] Scholarship Content, I'll pay your scholarity . Who offers? B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 2. scholarly (skol'är-li), a. [ In the house of my lord the Archbishop are most schol arly men, with whom is found all the uprightne of justice, all the caution of providence, every form of learning. Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 143. The whole chapter devoted to the Par the non and its sculptures is a delightful and scholarly account of recent discovery and criticism. Spectator, No. 3229, p. 698. =Syn. Learned , Scholarly. See learned and studious . scholarlyt (skol'är-li), adv . [ scholarly , a.] In the manner of a scholar; as becomes a scholar. Speak scholarly and wisely. Shak ., M. W. of W., i. 3. 2. scholarship (skol'är-ship), n . [ scholar + -ship.] 1. The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; learning; erudition. A man of my master's understanding and great scholar ship , who had a book of his own in print. Pope. (Johnson.) Such power of persevering, devoted labor as Mr. Casaubon's is not common. And therefore it is a pity that it should be thrown away, as so much English scholar ship is, for want of knowing what has been done by the rest of the world. George Eliot , Middle march, xxi. 2. Education; instruction; teaching. This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship. Milton, Education. 3. Maintenance for a scholar, awarded by a college, university, or other educational institution; a sum of money paid to a student, sometimes to a university graduate, usually after competition or examination, to support him or to a ist him in the prosecution of his studies. A scholarship but half maintains, And college rules are heavy chains. Warton, Progre of Discontent. philosophical proposition, and who wrote chiefly in the form of disputations, discu ing the questions with an almost syllogistic stiffne : opposed to Biblicist. The scholastics were far from rebelling against the dogmatic system of the church. E. Caird, Philos. of Kant, p. 23. I have the smallest po ible confidence in the metaphysical reasonings either of modern profe ors or of med iæval scholastics . Nineteenth Century, XXI. 326. Hence-3. One who deals with religious questions in the spirit of the medieval scholastics.-4. A member of the third grade in the organization of the Jesuits. A novitiate of two years' duration and a month of strict confinement are prerequisite to entrance to the grade of scholastic. The term consists of five years' study in the arts, five or six years of teaching and study, a year of final novitiate, and from four to six years of study in theology. The scholastic is then prepared to be admitted as a priest of the order.