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Platonist|ˈpleɪtənɪst|
[ad. med.L. platanista (1286 in Catholicon), f. Gr. Πλάτων Plato: see -ist.]
A follower of Plato; one who holds the doctrines or philosophy of Plato.
1549Latimer 6th Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 166 He [St. Augustine] became of a Maniche and of a platoniste a good christian. 1570Levins Manip. 147 Platoniste, Platonista. 1626Bacon Sylva §944 As for Love, the Platonists, (some of them,) go so farre as to hold that the spirit of the Lover, doth passe into the spirits of the Person Loved. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. Pref. 36 Vpon which Occasion we take notice of a Double Platonick Trinity; the One Spurious and Adulterated, of some latter Platonists; the Other True and Genuine, of Plato himself, Parmenides, and the Ancients. 1787Sir J. Hawkins Johnson 542 Dr. Henry More, of Cambridge, he did not much affect: he was a platonist, and, in Johnson's opinion, a visionary. 1847Emerson Repr. Men, Plato Wks. (Bohn) I. 310 Hamlet is a pure Platonist.
b. A platonic lover. Also attrib.
1756(title) Memoirs of a Young Lady of Quality, a Platonist. 1895Westm. Gaz. 6 July 3/3 The author has endeavoured to give a sympathetic view of a warm-hearted woman in her relations with a platonist husband.
Hence Platoˈnistic a., pertaining to or characteristic of the Platonists or of Platonism; Platoˈnistically adv.
1859W. Key Lect. on St. August. 12 He was speaking with an aged Christian about some Platonistic books. 1953M. H. Abrams Mirror & Lamp i. 29 Shelley's Platonistic ‘Defence of Poetry’. 1957G. Ryle in C. Mace Brit. Philos. in Mid-Cent. 263 The difficulty is to steer between the Scylla of a Platonistic and the Charybdis of a lexicographical account of the business of philosophy and logic. 1959P. F. Strawson Individuals viii. 234 No doubt some philosophers have deluded themselves with myths, have invested non-particulars with a character they do not really possess. There is Platonistic zeal as well as nominalistic zeal. But zeal of either kind is out of place. 1977G. W. H. Lampe God as Spirit iv. 108 The Platonistically conceived Second Person of the Trinity in the classical formulations of the fourth and fifth centuries. |