Scholar

skol′ar, n. a pupil: a disciple: a student: one who has received a learned education: a man of learning: a savant: in the English universities, an undergraduate partly supported from the revenues of a college.— ns. Schol′arch , the head of a school of philosophy; Schol′arism , the affectation of scholarship.— adjs. Schol′ar-like , Schol′arly , like or becoming a scholar.— n. Schol′arship , the character of a scholar: learning: maintenance for a scholar, a benefaction, the annual proceeds of a bequest permanently invested for this purpose.— adj. Scholas′tic , pertaining to a scholar or to schools: scholar-like: pertaining to the schoolmen: exce ively subtle: pedantic.— n. one who adheres to the method or subtleties of the schools of the middle ages.— adv. Scholas′tically , in a scholastic manner: according to the methods of the schools of philosophy.— n. Scholas′ticism , the aims, methods, and products of thought which constituted the main endeavour of the intellectual life of the middle ages: the method or subtleties of the schools of philosophy: the collected body of doctrines of the schoolmen. [Low L. scholar is —L. schola .]