\School"man`\, n.; pl. {Schoolmen}.
One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of
school divinity.
Note: The schoolmen were philosophers and divines of the
      Middle Ages, esp. from the 11th century to the
      Reformation, who spent much time on points of nice and
      abstract speculation. They were so called because they
      taught in the medi[ae]val universities and schools of
      divinity.