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pythagorize, v.|pɪˈθægəraɪz, paɪ-|
[ad. Gr. πῡθαγορίζειν to be a disciple of Pythagoras; L. pȳthagorissāre to imitate Pythagoras. Cf. F. pythagoriser (Cholieres 1587) in sense 1.]
1. intr. To follow Pythagoras; to speculate after the manner of Pythagoras.
1610Healey Vives' Comm. St. Aug. Citie of God x. xxx. (1620) 381 Plato Pythagorizing held that the Soules after death passed into other bodies. 1666Bp. S. Parker Free & Impart. Censure (1667) 48 The latter Platonists..especially those of them that did most Pythagorize.
†2. To pass by transmigration. Obs. nonce-use.
1651Biggs New Disp. 184 Peradventure the Shop of choler from the very thresh-hold of life hath Pythagorized into the private ware-house of the head.
†3. trans. To change (one person or thing) into another as by transmigration of souls. Obs.
1631J. Done Polydoron 211 If our godlesse dainty Gallants were but so Pythagorized, how they would wish they had lived better. 1721Ramsay Morn. Interview 253 O happiest of herbs! who would not be Pythagoriz'd into the form of thee, And with high transports act the part of tea!
Hence pyˈthagorizing ppl. a.; also pyˈthagoˌrizer, one who Pythagorizes, or follows the doctrine or practice of Pythagoras.
1677Gale Crt. Gentiles II. iii. 19 These Pythagorising Gnostics..were professed enemies to Pietie. 1875Lightfoot Comm. Col. 146 Satirised..as ‘pythagorizers’, in other words as total abstainers and vegetarians. |