schoolmaid (skolmad)

A school-girl. Lucio. Is she your cousin? Isab . Adoptedly; as school - maids change their names By vain though apt affection. Shak . , M. for M., 1. 4. 47. schoolman (sköl'man), n .; pl. schoolmen (-men). A master in one of the medieval universities or other schools; especially, a Christian Peripatetic of the middle ages; a scholastic. See scholasticism. The Schoolmen reckon up seven sorts of Corporal Alms, and as many of Spiritual. Stilling fleet , Sermons, II. vii. If you want definitions, axioms, and arguments, I am an able school -man. Steele , Lying Lover, i. 1. There were days, centuries ago, when the schoolmen fancied that they could bring into cla and line all human knowledge, and encroach to some extent upon the divine, syllogisms and conversions and oppositions. Stubbs , Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 90.