Definition of Scholiastic

1. a. Of or pertaining to a scholiast, or his pursuits.

Definition of Scholiastic

1. Adjective. of or relating to a scholiast ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scholiastic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scholiastic

scholarship
scholarships
scholas
scholastic
scholastical
scholastically
scholasticals
scholasticate
scholasticates
scholasticism
scholasticisms
scholastick
scholastics
scholia
scholiast
scholiastic (current term)
scholiasts
scholiaze
scholical
scholion
scholium
scholiums
scholzite
school-age
school-age child
school-band
school-marm
school-marms
school admission criteria

Literary usage of Scholiastic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"This tendency to interpret and deepen authoritative tradition led, in ancient philology, to a special class of scholiastic literature, designed to reconcile ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1909)
"The age of the confessions tended again to heap matter together, and philological comment reproduced scholiastic form. Pietism roamed freely in ascetic ..."

3. American Journal of Philology by Project Muse, JSTOR (Organization) (1904)
"Text edition, with a very full and interesting introduction by Wilamowitz, a philological commentary, a paraphrase in scholiastic Greek, and an Index ..."

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