schoolmen

Variant of schoolman

schoolman definition

school·man (sko̵̅o̅lmən; for 2, often, -man′)

noun pl. schoolmen -·men (-mən; for 2, often, -men′)

  1. any of the medieval university teachers of philosophy, logic, and theology; scholastic
  2. a teacher, educator, or scholar

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