Scholastic

a. [Lat. scholasticus, Gr. σχολαστικός, from σχολάζειν, to have leisure, to give lectures, to keep a school, from σχολή, leisure, a lecture, a school; Fr. scholastique, scolastique, It. scolastico, Sp. escolastico. See SCHOOL.]

1. Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholar-like; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.
2. Pertaining to the schoolmen, or philosophers and divines, of the middle ages, who adopted the system of Aristotle, and spent much time on points of nice and abstract speculation; as, scholastic divinity or theology; scholastic philosophy.
3. Hence, characterized by excessive subtlety, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.