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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

(Eccl. Hist.)

A follower of (Joannes) Duns

Scotus

, the Franciscan scholastic (d. 1308), who maintained certain doctrines in philosophy and theology, in opposition to the

Thomists

, or followers of Thomas Aquinas, the Dominican scholastic.

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.