Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SCHEME, v.t.

To plan; to contrive.

SCHEM-ER, n.

One that contrives; a projector; a contriver.

SCHEM-ING, n.

The act of forming a plan.

SCHEM-ING, ppr.

1. Planning; contriving.
2. adj. Given to forming schemes; artful.

SCHEM-ING-LY, adv.

By scheming or contriving.

SCHEM-IST, n.

A schemer; a projector. – Coventry.

SCHENE, n. [L. schœnos; Gr. σχοινος.]

An Egyptian measure of length, equal to sixty stadia, or about 7 1/2 miles. Herodotus.

SCHE'SIS, n. [Gr. σχεσις, from σχεω, σχεθω, to have or hold.]

Habitude; general state or disposition of the body or mind, or of one thing with regard to other things. Norris.

SCHIL'LER-SPAR, n.

A mineral containing two subspecies, bronzite and common schiller-spar.

SCHISM, n. [sizm; L. schisma; Gr. σχισμα, from σχιζω, to divide, L. scindo, Sax. sceadan, D. scheien, scheiden, G. scheiden, to separate, to part.]

1. In a general sense, division or separation; but appropriately, a division or separation in a church or denomination of Christians, occasioned by diversity of opinions; breach of unity among people of the same religious faith. Set bounds to our passions by reason, to our errors by truth, and to our schisms by charity. K. Charles. In Scripture, the word seems to denote a breach of charity, rather than a difference of doctrine.
2. Separation; division among tribes or classes of people.

SCHIS-MAT'IC, or SCHIS-MAT'IC-AL, a. [sizmat'ic, sizmat'ical.]

Pertaining to schism; implying schism; partaking of the nature of schism; tending to schism; as, schismatical opinions or proposals. K. Charles. South.

SCHIS-MAT'IC, n.

One who separates from an established church or religious faith, on account of a diversity of opinions. Blackstone. Swift.

SCHIS-MAT'IC-AL-LY, adv.

In a schismatical manner; by separation from a church on account of a diversity of opinions.

SCHIS-MAT'IC-AL-NESS, n.

The state of being schismatical.

SCHIS'MA-TIZE, v.i.

To commit or practice schism; to make a breach of communion in the church. – Johnson.

SCHISM'LESS, a.

Free from schism; not affected by schism. [Little used.] – Milton.

SCHIST, n. [See SHIST.]

SCHOL'AR, n. [Low L. scholaris, from schola, a school; Gr. σχολη, leisure, a school; Fr. ecolier; D. schoolier; G. schüler; Dan. skolelærd. The Danish word signifies schoolbooks. See School.]

1. One who learns of a teacher; one who is under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; hence, any member of a college, academy, or school; applicable to the learner of any art, science, or branch of literature.
2. A man of letters. – Locke.
3. Emphatically used, a man eminent for erudition; a person of high attainments in science or literature.
4. One that learns any thing; as, an apt scholar in the school of vice.
5. A pedant; a man of books. – Bacon. [But the word scholar seldom conveys the idea of a pedant.]
6. A person, in English universities, who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives a portion of its revenues.

SCHO-LAR'I-TY, n.

Scholarship. [Not used.] – B. Jonson.

SCHOL'AR-LIKE, or SCHOL'AR-LY, a.

Like a scholar; becoming a scholar. – Bacon.

SCHOL'AR-SHIP, n.

1. Learning; attainments in science or literature; as, a man of great scholarship. – Pope.
2. Literary education; as, any other house of scholarship. [Unusual.] – Milton.
3. Exhibition or maintenance for a scholar; foundation for the support of a student. – Ainsworth.

SCHO-LAS'TIC, or SCHO-LAS'TIC-AL, a. [L. scholasticus.]

1. Pertaining to a scholar, to a school or to schools; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.
2. Scholar-like; becoming a scholar; suitable to schools; as, scholastic precision.
3. Pedantic; formal. Scholastic divinity, that species of divinity taught in some schools or colleges, which consists in discussing and settling points by reason and argument. It has now fallen into contempt, except in some universities, where the charters require it to be taught. Encyc.

SCHO-LAS'TIC, n.

One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools. – Milton.

SCHO-LAS'TIC-AL-LY, adv.

In the manner of schools; according to the niceties or method of the schools.

SCHO-LAS'TI-CISM, n.

The method or subtilties of the schools. – Warton. The spirit of the old scholasticism, which spurned laborious investigation and slow induction. – J. P. Smith.