A scholar in one of the universities of the Middle Ages; versed in scholasticism.

synonym: medieval Schoolman.

Polish: scholastyk

A scholar who is skilled in academic disputation.

synonym: academician.

Roget 492: scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman^†, professor, graduate, wrangler; academician, academist^†; master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman; philosopher, master of math; scientist, clerk; sophist, sophister^†; linguist; glossolinguist, philologist; philologer^†; lexicographer, glossographer; grammarian; litterateur [Fr.], literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti [It]; fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi^†, Sanskritish; sinologist, sinologue^†; Mezzofanti^†, admirable Crichton, Mecaenas.    bookworm, helluo librorum [Lat.]; bibliophile, bibliomaniac^†; bluestocking, bas-bleu [Fr.]; bigwig, learned Theban, don; Artium Baccalaureus [Lat.], Artium Magister [Lat.].    learned man, literary man; homo multarum literarum [Lat.]; man of learning, man of letters, man of education, man of genius.    antiquarian, antiquary; archaeologist.    sage etc. (wise man) 500.    pedant, doctrinaire; pedagogue, Dr.    Pangloss; pantologist^†, criminologist.    schoolboy etc. (learner) 541.    ... show more

Roget 983: theology (natural and revealed); theogony^†, theosophy; divinity; hagiology, hagiography; Caucasian mystery; monotheism; religion; religious persuasion, religious sect, religious denomination; creed etc. (belief) 484; article of faith, declaration of faith, profession of faith, confession of faith.    theologue, theologian; scholastic, divine, schoolman^†, canonist, theologist^†; the Fathers.    ... show more

Dutch: academicus