† schoˈlaster Obs.
[a. med.L. scholaster, ad. OF. scolaistre, escolastre (mod.F. écolâtre), altered form of escolaste, a. L. scholasticus: see next.]
The holder of a prebend in a cathedral, to which certain teaching duties were attached.
In quot. 1793 app. used loosely for a scholastic divine.
| 1732 Hist. Litteraria IV. 298 The old Translators..have render'd it [Ecolâtre] by a very unusual term, viz. the Scholaster Anselm. 1793 D'Israeli Cur. Lit. II. 63 The inexpugnable ignorance and superstition of the ancient heathens,..and of the popish scholasters and canonists. |