scholasticise

present singular third person scholasticises · participle present scholasticising · participle past scholasticised · past scholasticised

1. alternativeAlternative form of scholasticize.

   The thinkers think, the scholars scholasticise, the devotees worship.

   1995, John A. Grimes, Ganapati: Song of the Self, page 2

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   We can, indeed, misunderstand S. Paul's real thought on 'justification', or on any other topic, only if we try to scholasticise (i.e. Hellenise) it as the intellectual exposition of a theological system.

   1955, Gregory Dix, Jew and Greek: a study in the primitive Church, page 57

   Sexual titanism is always weakness. True strength has no need sexually to scholasticise.

   1990, Stanley B. Winters, T.G.Masaryk (1850-1937): Volume 1: Thinker and Politician, page 80

   Even Hegel's work was regarded by Forsyth as another attempt to scholasticise Christianity.

   2008, David Michael Thompson, Cambridge Theology in the Nineteenth Century, page 158