scholrship.html - n.
1 a learned person, esp. in language, literature, etc.; an academic.
2 the holder of a scholarship.
3 a a person with specified academic ability (is a poor scholar). b a person who learns (am a scholar of life).
4 archaic colloq. a person able to read and write.
5 archaic a schoolboy or schoolgirl.

scholar's mate see MATE(2) ).

scholarly adv. scholarliness n. [ME f. OE scol(i)ere & OF escol(i)er f. LL scholaris f. L schola SCHOOL(1)]

scholrship.html - n.
1 a academic achievement; learning of a high level. b the methods and standards characteristic of a good scholar (shows great scholarship).
2 payment from the funds of a school, university, local government, etc., to maintain a student in full-time education, awarded on the basis of scholarly achievement.

scholrship.html - adj. & n.
--adj.

1 of or concerning universities, schools, education, teachers, etc.
2 pedantic; formal (shows scholastic precision).
3 Philos. hist. of, resembling, or concerning the schoolmen, esp. in dealing with logical subtleties.

--n.

1 a student.
2 Philos. hist. a schoolman.
3 a theologian of scholastic tendencies.
4 RC Ch. a member of any of several religious orders, who is between the novitiate and the priesthood.

scholastically adv. scholasticism n. [L scholasticus f. Gk skholastikos studious f. skholazo be at leisure, formed as SCHOOL]

scholrship.html - n.
hist. an ancient or medieval scholar, esp. a grammarian, who annotated ancient literary texts.

scholiastic adj. [med.Gk skholiastes f. skholiazo write scholia: see SCHOLIUM]

scholrship.html - n.
(pl. scholia) a marginal note or explanatory comment, esp. by an ancient grammarian on a classical text. [mod.L f. Gk skholion f. skhole disputation: see SCHOOL]

scholrship.html - See: TELL TALES OUT OF SCHOOL.