Word Meanings - PLATONIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A follower of Plato; a Platonist.

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• PLATONICALLY
  In a Platonic manner.
• PLATONIC; PLATONICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to Plato, or his philosophy, school, or opinions. 2. Pure, passionless; nonsexual; philosophical. Platonic bodies, the five regular geometrical solids; namely, the tetrahedron, hexahedron or cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and
• PLATOON
  men, a platoon, from pelote a ball formed of things wound round. See Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square. Now, in the United States service, half
• PLATONIZER
  One who Platonizes.
• PLATONIC
  A follower of Plato; a Platonist.
• PLATOMETER
  See PLANIMETER
• PLATONIST
  One who adheres to the philosophy of Plato; a follower of Plato. Hammond.
• PLATONIZE
  To adopt the opinion of Plato or his followers. Milner.
• PLATONISM
  1. The doctrines or philosophy by Plato or of his followers. Note: Plato believed God to be an infinitely wise, just, and powerful Spirit; and also that he formed the visible universe out of preëxistent amorphous matter, according to
• FOLLOWER
  1. One who follows; a pursuer; an attendant; a disciple; a dependent associate; a retainer. 2. A sweetheart; a beau. A. Trollope. The removable flange, or cover, of a piston. See Illust. of Piston. A gland. See Illust. of Stuffing box.
• CONTEMPLATOR
  One who contemplates. Sir T. Browne.
• NEOPLATONISM
  A pantheistic eclectic school of philosophy, of which Plotinus was the chief , and which sought to reconcile the Platonic and Aristotelian systems with Oriental theosophy. It tended to mysticism and theurgy, and was the last product of
• NEOPLATONICIAN
  A neoplatonist.
• NEOPLATONIST
  One who held to Neoplatonism; a member of the Neoplatonic school.
• NEOPLATONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Neoplatonism or the Neoplatonists.