platonize

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platonize (third-person singular simple present platonizes, present participle platonizing, simple past and past participle platonized)

  1. (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
  2. (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

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