Explore Scholastics through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Scholastics meaning
plural of scholastic
Using Scholastics
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of scholastic
- In the example corpus, scholastics often appears in combinations such as: the scholastics.
Context around Scholastics
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 2 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Scholastics
- In this selection, "scholastics" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, first, remaining, conveniens, adopted and comprise stand out and add context to how "scholastics" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include of the scholastics and amongst the scholastics there were. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "scholastics" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with scholastics
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Amongst the Scholastics there were no defenders of traducianism. (9 words)
There was a diversity of opinions among the remaining Scholastics. (10 words)
A more nuanced reading relates it to the scholastics "conveniens" or "fitting". (12 words)
Alexander was also one of the first scholastics to participate in the Quodlibetal, a university event in which a master had to respond to any question posed by any student or master over a period of three days. (38 words)
The list names mostly priests, but it also names some brothers, who serve some ministry functions but who are not ordained, and “scholastics,” which are men training to become priests. (30 words)
As to the method of interpretation, he insisted with great emphasis upon the unity of the sense, upon the literal sense in contrast to the four senses of the scholastics. (30 words)
Example sentences (11)
The list names mostly priests, but it also names some brothers, who serve some ministry functions but who are not ordained, and “scholastics,” which are men training to become priests.
Alexander was also one of the first scholastics to participate in the Quodlibetal, a university event in which a master had to respond to any question posed by any student or master over a period of three days.
Amongst the Scholastics there were no defenders of traducianism.
A more nuanced reading relates it to the scholastics "conveniens" or "fitting".
As to the method of interpretation, he insisted with great emphasis upon the unity of the sense, upon the literal sense in contrast to the four senses of the scholastics.
In opposition to the rational approach to divine understanding that the scholastics adopted, Bernard would preach an immediate faith, in which the intercessor was the Virgin Mary.
It has often been said Boethius was the “ last of the Romans and the first of the Scholastics ”.
Its office is to determine for each in practice those circumstances of time, place, manner, etc. which should be observed, and which the Scholastics comprise under the term "medium rationis".
Scholastic method The scholastics would choose a book by a renowned scholar, auctor (author), as a subject for investigation.
There was a diversity of opinions among the remaining Scholastics.
The Scholastics agreed that no predicate is adequate to express the nature of God, but they did not say that no affirmative term could be applied to God.
Common combinations with scholastics
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: