Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SCHOOL'MAN
SCHOOL'MAN, a. [See Man.]
- A man versed in the niceties of academical disputation, or of school divinity. Unlearn'd, he knew no schoolman's subtil art. – Pope.
- A writer of scholastic divinity or philosophy. Let subtil schoolmen teach these friends to fight. – Pope.
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