Scho-lās'ti-cism, n.
n. 1. The method or subtilties of the schools of philosophy; scholastic formality.
The spirit of the old scholasticism . . . spurned laborious investigation and slow induction. J. P. Smith.
Sense 2. The collected body of doctrines of the scholastics or schoolmen; scholastic philosophy.
O. A. Brownson.