scholasticize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To fit into the framework of scholasticism.
verb
To make excessively formal, rigid, or pedantic.
verb
To study, describe, or codify as an academic discipline.
Example Sentences
- "Attempting to force a theory of abstraction into Augustine's theory of knowledge, these interpreters tend to scholasticize Augustine at the expense of his Platonism."
- "The setting up of a canon of cure from authority, reason and sense was one of the devices by which Gentile hoped to scholasticize traditional practice."
- "Molyneux had wished to scholasticize Locke, as the early Johnson had scholasticized Locke."
- "Now, in the post-Reformation polemical situation, Beza tended to rigidify and scholasticize many of Calvin's positions."
- "In addition, lawyers scholasticize politics, and have contributed mightily to the de-democratization of American culture over the past four decades, by throwing all political and personal questions into the courts."
- "Whereas the danger for contextual theology is to ideologize the gospel, the danger for Western theology is to scholasticize it."
Etymology
From scholastic + -ize.