scholasticize

present singular third person scholasticizes · participle present scholasticizing · participle past scholasticized · past scholasticized · alternative scholasticise

1. To fit into the framework of scholasticism.

   Molyneux had wished to scholasticize Locke, as the early Johnson had scholasticized Locke.

   2005, William S. Morris, The Young Jonathan Edwards: A Reconstruction, page 139

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   Attempting to force a theory of abstraction into Augustine's theory of knowledge, these interpreters tend to scholasticize Augustine at the expense of his Platonism.

   1970, Augustinian Studies - Volumes 1-2, page 48

   The setting up of a canon of cure from authority, reason and sense was one of the devices by which Gentile hoped to scholasticize traditional practice.

   2001, Roger Kenneth French, Canonical Medicine: Gentile Da Foligno and Scholasticism, page 237

2. To make excessively formal, rigid, or pedantic.

   Now, in the post-Reformation polemical situation, Beza tended to rigidify and scholasticize many of Calvin's positions.

   1992, Donald K. McKim, Major themes in the Reformed tradition - Volume 1991, page 58

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   In addition, lawyers scholasticize politics, and have contributed mightily to the de-democratization of American culture over the past four decades, by throwing all political and personal questions into the courts.

   2018, Paul Gottfried, Theologies and Moral Concern

   Whereas the danger for contextual theology is to ideologize the gospel, the danger for Western theology is to scholasticize it.

   2018, Gert-Jan Roest, The Gospel in the Western Context

3. To study, describe, or codify as an academic discipline.

   Whether to any extent, and to what, the schoolmaster should scholasticize athletics, let us now consider.

   1898, Lionel Arthur Tollemache, Essays, Mock-essays and Character Sketches

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   A man of adhesive intelligence and energy, at ease with strong words and bold actions, he did not merely scholasticize his ideas, he lived them.

   1989, Scott Nearing, Steve Sherman, A Scott Nearing Reader: The Good Life in Bad Times, page xiii

   As STSD achieved a high profile in the seventies and eighties academics sought ways to scholasticize it, consultants sought ways to sell it and politicians sought ways to turn it into vote-winning programmes.

   1993, Frans M. van Eijnatten, Hans van Beinum, The Paradigm that Changed the Work Place, page 192