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† Platoˈnician Obs.
[ad. F. platonicien (Oresme 14th c.), f. L. Platonic-us Platonic: see -ian: cf. mechanician.]
= Platonist.
1741tr. D'Argens' Chinese Lett. xxxviii. 289 The Platonicians suppose that God and Matter were the Principles of all Beings. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. xiii. I. 399 The new Platonicians..exhausted their strength in the verbal disputes of metaphysics. 1829K. Digby Broadst. Hon. I. Godefridus 157 Philo a celebrated philosopher among the Platonicians. |