Schōōl'-man, n.

n.; pl. SCHŌOL'-MEN. One versed in the niceties of academical disputation, or of school divinity.

☞ The school-men were philosophers and divines of the middle ages who adopted the principles of Aristotle, and spent much time on points of nice and abstract speculation. They were so called because they taught in the schools of divinity established by Charlemagne.