Word Meanings - PLATONIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To adopt the opinion of Plato or his followers. Milner.

Related words: (words related to PLATONIZE)

• OPINIONATOR
  An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
• PLATONICALLY
  In a Platonic manner.
• ADOPT
  1. To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc. ; esp. to take voluntarily to be in the place of, or as, one's own child. 2. To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve;
• 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
• OPINIONATE
  Opinionated.
• 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
• OPINIONIST
  One fond of his own notions, or unduly attached to his own opinions. Glanvill.
• ADOPTER
  A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a
• PLATONIZER
  One who Platonizes.
• OPINIONABLE
  Being, or capable of being, a matter of opinion; that can be thought; not positively settled; as, an opinionable doctrine. C. J. Ellicott.
• PLATONIC
  A follower of Plato; a Platonist.
• OPINIONATED
  Stiff in opinion; firmly or unduly adhering to one's own opinion or to preconceived notions; obstinate in opinion. Sir W. Scott.
• ADOPTED
  Taken by adoption; taken up as one's own; as, an adopted son, citizen, country, word. -- A*dopt"ed*ly, adv.
• ADOPTIONIST
  One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.
• PLATOMETER
  See PLANIMETER
• OPINIONATIST
  An opinionist.
• PLATONIST
  One who adheres to the philosophy of Plato; a follower of Plato. Hammond.
• ADOPTION
  1. The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child. 2. Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries,
• ADOPTABLE
  Capable of being adopted.
• OPINION
  The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a counselor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted. To be of opinion, to think; to judge. -- To hold opinion with, to agree
• SELF-OPINION
  Opinion, especially high opinion, of one's self; an overweening estimate of one's self or of one's own opinion. Collier.
• 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.
• PREOPINION
  Opinion previously formed; prepossession; prejudice. Sir T. Browne.