单词 | platonian |
释义 | Platoniann.adj. A. n. = Platonist n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > Platonism > adherent of academiclOE academiana1533 Platonist1549 Platonian1569 Academite1572 Old Academic1579 Platonicker1582 Platonic1586 academist1670 Platonician1683 idealist1701 Platonizer1734 1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. 68 b Whiche was the Platonians opinion [L. Platonicorum opinio]. 1611 A. Stafford Niobe 80 The Platonians were so enamoured of this amiable goddess. 1797 J. S. Barr tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. (new ed.) IV. v. 167 It is in this kind of error of the first order that the Platonians, the Sceptics, and the Egotists have fell into. 1918 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 15 480 For gladly would I call myself a Platonian, meaning thereby to express my devoir to so lordly a tutor. 1934 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 38 602/1 This region also produced two important inscriptions, one, a stele dedicated to Hermes.., and the other a tiny splinter of marble..with the names of four Platonians. 2001 Weekly Standard (Nexis) 17 Sept. (Books & Arts section) 31 Captain Kirk..once toppled an elite called the Platonians, who modeled themselves on the rulers described in Plato's Republic. B. adj. = Platonic adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [adjective] > Platonic Platonic1533 Platonical1556 Platonian1595 Platonistic1857 1595 R. Sempill in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxix. 201 Now is the cours Platonian completit haillely: the sone and Mone and sevin sterris reuoluit in þe sky. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. xix. 32 Speusippus the Platonian Philosopher. 1716 Brathwait's Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys i. 7 To Oxford came I, whose Companion Is Minerva, Well Platonian [1638 Well of Plato; L. fons Platonis]. 1755 Epitome Valerius Maximus in tr. D. Artemidorus Interpr. of Dreams (ed. 24) 155 Of Dion and Brutus, Platonian philosophers. 1860 H. Coppée Elem. Logic xii. §56 247 Nominalism and Realism were but the reproduction on the ninth century of the old Platonian controversy, already referred to. 1882 Times 7 Sept. 6/4 The Utopian ideas of the Platonian philosopher. 1942 B. Berenson Jrnl. 28 Feb. in One Year's Reading (1960) 30 Aristides speaks in the Platonian Theages. 1990 Public Relations Rev. (Nexis) 22 Dec. 5 I don't want to get entangled in a Platonian argument of what is truth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1569 |
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