a very serious and 'scholarly' young man [=a young man who studies serious subjects and who is learning or has learned a lot about those subjects]
His writings have been recently given 'scholarly' attention.
a 'scholarly' study of words and their origins
(..) You can feel him move. I respectfully ask Minister Karenin whether his proposals for the regulation of these colorful gypsy tribes of these scholarly, God-fearing Jews, and of... But I'm afraid I've lost the Minister's attention. Who is here? I wanted to see him because... I do not wish to know (..)2012 Anna Karenina