\Scho*las"tic\, a. [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.

\Scho*las"tic\, n.
1. One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the
   schools. --Milton.
2. (R. C. Ch.) See the Note under {Jesuit}.