Scotist
English
Etymology
Scotus + -ist
Noun
Scotist (plural Scotists)
- (historical) A follower of (Joannes) Duns Scotus, Franciscan scholar, who maintained certain doctrines in philosophy and theology in opposition to the Thomists.
- 1842, The Saint Petersburg English Review of Literature
- […] it should be remembered that their poets and rabbis of the middle ages were contemporary with the Scotists and Thomists, with the pseudo-platonism and peripateticism of Christendom.
- 1842, The Saint Petersburg English Review of Literature