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plural Scotists
(theology) A follower of (Joannes) Duns Scotus, Franciscan scholar, who maintained certain doctrines in philosophy and theology in opposition to the Thomists. quotations
[…] 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