pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.-of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the middle ages (see schoolman); as, scholastic divinity or theology; scholastic philosophy.-hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.-one who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools.-see the note under jesuit.