schoolman Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a scholar in one of the universities of the Middle Ages; versed in scholasticism
    medieval Schoolman.
  2. noun a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation
    academician.

WordNet

School"man` noun
Wordforms
plural Schoolmen
Definitions
  1. One versed in the niceties of academical disputation or of school divinity. ✍ 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 mediæval universities and schools of divinity.

Webster 1913