Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Scotist \Sco"tist\, n. (Eccl. Hist.)
   A follower of (Joannes) Duns Scotus, the Franciscan
   scholastic (d. 1308), who maintained certain doctrines in
   philosophy and theology, in opposition to the {Thomists}, or
   followers of Thomas Aquinas, the Dominican scholastic.