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Plaˈtonical, a. ? Obs.
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
1. = Platonic A. 1.
1561T. Norton tr. Calvin's Inst. i. xiv. (1634) 69 Let us therefore forsake that Platonicall philosophy. 1642H. More (title) A Platonical Song of the Soul. 1758E. Carter tr. Epictetus Introd., There is no real difference betwixt the Platonical and Stoical philosophy, in the opinion of fate, and the freedom of human actions. 1845Maurice Mor. & Met. Philos. in Encycl. Metrop. (1847) II. 612/1 The attempt to divide matter from substance and look upon things sensible as not sensible, has led to all the Pythagorean and Platonical inventions, which he regards with so much dislike.
2. = Platonic A. 2.
1636Davenant Platonic Lovers Wks. (1673) 414 Since not..amongst you all He can find one will prove Platonical. 1823Byron Juan ix. lxxvi, The noblest kind of love is love Platonical.
3. = Platonic A. 3.
1571Digges Pantom., Math. Disc. Pref., I haue thought good to adioyne this Treatise of the 5 Platonicall bodies. Ibid., The fiue bodyes Regulare or Platonicall. 1656Blount Glossogr., Platonical year (annus platonicus) is every 36000th. year, when some Philosophers imagined, all persons and things should return to the same state as now they are.
Hence Plaˈtonicalness.
1668G. C. in H. More Div. Dial. Pref. i. (1713) 6 Which therefore agrees well with the Platonicalness of Cuphophron's Genius. |