noun
- A session of intensive tuition given by a tutor to an individual or to a small number of students.
adjective
- Of or relating to tutors or tutoring.
- usage: "tutorial sessions"
Tutorial and Scholastic
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- A person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit.
- A Scholastic philosopher or theologian.
adjective
- Of or relating to schools.
- usage: "scholastic year"
- Of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of scholasticism.
- usage: "scholastic philosophy"
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- (n.) One who adheres to the method or subtilties of the schools.
- (a.) Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.
- (a.) Of or pertaining to the schoolmen and divines of the Middle Ages (see Schoolman); as, scholastic divinity or theology; scholastic philosophy.
- (a.) Pertaining to or suiting, a scholar, a school or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.
- (n.) See the Note under Jesuit.
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