Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Scholasticism \Scho*las"ti*cism\, n.
   The method or subtilties of the schools of philosophy;
   scholastic formality; scholastic doctrines or philosophy.

         The spirit of the old scholasticism . . . spurned
         laborious investigation and slow induction. --J. P.
                                                  Smith.

Source : WordNet®

Scholasticism
     n 1: the system of philosophy dominant in medieval Europe; based
          on Aristotle and the Church Fathers
     2: orthodoxy of a scholastic variety [syn: {academicism}, {academism}]