SCHOLASTIC

scholastic|scholastical. Scholastic, or Scholastical, a. belonging to a school

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Scho‐las″tic (?), a. [[L. scholasticus, Gr. �, fr. � to have leisure, to give lectures, to keep a school, from � leisure, a lecture, a school: cf. F. scholastique, scolastique. See School.]] 1. 1. Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning. Sir K. Digby.
2. 2. Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the Middle Ages (see Schoolman); as, scholastic divinity or theology; scholastic philosophy. Locke.
3. 3. Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.