Scholasticize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Scholasticize is a verb meaning To fit into the framework of scholasticism.
Meaning
To fit into the framework of scholasticism.
More Meanings
- To make excessively formal, rigid, or pedantic.
- To study, describe, or codify as an academic discipline.
Example Sentences
Molyneux had wished to scholasticize Locke, as the early Johnson had scholasticized Locke.
Whether to any extent, and to what, the schoolmaster should scholasticize athletics, let us now consider.
Now, in the post-Reformation polemical situation, Beza tended to rigidify and scholasticize many of Calvin's positions.
Whereas the danger for contextual theology is to ideologize the gospel, the danger for Western theology is to scholasticize it.
Word Forms
- scholasticizes
- scholasticizing
- scholasticized
- scholasticise
Related Words
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