scholasticize

Verb

scholasticize (third-person singular simple present scholasticizes, present participle scholasticizing, simple past and past participle scholasticized)

1. To fit into the framework of scholasticism.
   • 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
   • 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
3. To study, describe, or codify as an academic discipline.
   • 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
   • 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