Scholastic

Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.

Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the Middle Ages (see Schoolman); as, scholastic divinity or theology; scholastic philosophy.

Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.

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

See the Note under Jesuit.