platonize
English edit
Verb edit
platonize (third-person singular simple present platonizes, present participle platonizing, simple past and past participle platonized)
- (transitive) To explain by, or accommodate to, the Platonic philosophy.
- 1791, William Enfield, Johann Jakob Brucker, The History of Philosophy:
- Either Plato philonized, or Philo platonized
- (intransitive) To adopt the opinion of Plato or his followers.
- 1794, Joseph Milner, The History of the Church of Christ:
- He platonizes , after the manner of Origen , in some parts of his writings ; yet he is cited by Athanasius as a witness of the Son's consubstantiality with the Father
References edit
- “platonize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.