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Synonyms for Schoolman

a scholar in one of the universities of the Middle Ages

a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation

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This is consistent with other studies that found a large positive and statistically significant effect of income on ambient air pollutants in selected provinces (Schoolman and Ma 2012).
Knasas, "Thomistic Existentialism and the Silence of the Quinque Viae," The Modern Schoolman 63 (1986): 170, fn.
In addition to his enlightening and elegantly detailed reading of Democratic Vistas, Schoolman also illuminates the implications of Whitman's aesthetic vision of democracy for modern democratic theory.
This scholarly book is the first translation ever made into any language of the Ogdoas of Alberto Alfieri, an obscure fifteenth-century Italian schoolman's treatise on noble behavior and civic virtue.
Anya Schoolman is executive director of the Community Power Network and the president of DC Solar United Neighborhoods.
The university's department of philosophy was also caught up in the neo-Scholastic revival, as were most American Jesuit colleges and universities during the era, in which the Jesuit editors of the Modern Schoolman (established in 1925) envisioned a resurgent neo-Thomism saving the literary world from the same forms of subjectivist relativism that had insinuated themselves into the philosophical realm.
Parr Schoolman "has made me a better actuary," a client said.
Jacob's sons seem to bump up against the bars of Schoolman's prison.
According to Anya Schoolman, one of the Mount Pleasant Cooperative Founders, working together and making the most of the government programs has allowed for dramatic results, "There is a 30 percent federal tax credit for going solar for residential and that makes a huge difference in the cost and then there are a number of state level incentives." Schoolman goes on to say that cooperative homeowners have seen their electrical bills go down by as much as two-thirds and the local electric company grants homeowners credit when their solar system generates more energy than they use.
His choice of Jean Gerson to lead us on this voyage of discovery is most apt, as Gerson experimented with many identities--preacher, polemicist, theologian, reformer, and schoolman, just to name a few--and joined a commitment to essential traditions of medieval learning with a refreshing openness to new modes of communication.
This humility and clear thinking would serve the young schoolman well as he set his feet on a course that would bring him fame and respect from scholars, thinkers, and most importantly, American patriots.
Chapter 1 unveils Gerson "the bookman." Having far greater access to books than a thirteenth-century schoolman, the Chancellor and his contemporaries became more concerned to identify works in their original form, to treat them in their entirety, and to associate them with the qualities of their writers.
As a result, Gerson was no longer a conventional schoolman in the ivory tower; he increasingly emerged as a 'public intellectual'.