Platonicadj.n.

Brit.

/pləˈtɒnɪk/, U.S.

/pləˈtɑnɪk/

Forms: 1500s–1600s Platonike, 1500s–1700s Platonick, 1600s Platanicke, 1600s Platonicke, 1600s Platonik, 1600s Platonique, 1600s– Platonic. Also with lower-case initial.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Platōnicus.

Etymology: < classical Latin Platōnicus (adjective) of Plato or his philosophy, (noun) follower of Plato, also Platonica (neuter plural) teachings of Plato < Hellenistic Greek Πλατωνικός (adjective) of Plato or his philosophy < ancient Greek Πλάτων (classical Latin Platōn , Platō ), the name of Plato (c427–347 b.c.), Greek philosopher + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare Middle French, French platonique , noun (1486 as platonicque ) and adjective (beginning of the 16th cent. designating a school of philosophical thought, 1577 in chronology,1691 in année platonique Platonic year), Italian platonico , noun (probably 15th cent.) and adjective (a1446), early modern German platonicus , noun (1486), German platonisch , adjective (1530). With use as noun compare earlier Platonist n., Platonian n., Platonicker n.With sense A. 2a compare post-classical Latin amor platonicus (see below), Italian amor platonico (1554), German platonische Liebe (17th cent.), French amour platonique (1743; compare amour à la platonique (1659)). Post-classical Latin amor platonicus appears to have been coined by the Florentine Neoplatonic philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433–99) in his Argumentum et commentaria in Phedrum ch. 1 (probably composed c1466–8, and printed 1484; edited and translated in M. J. B. Allen Marsilio Ficino and the Phaedran charioteer (1981) 73), where the amoris platonici et socratici castitatem ‘chastity of Platonic and Socratic love’ is mentioned with allusion to the account of love in Plato Symposium 201D-212A, esp. 209B-E. The sense in which Ficino uses the phrase is summarized as follows by P. O. Kristeller in The philosophy of Marsilio Ficino (tr. V. Conant (1964) 286): ‘it is intellectual love between friends; love which unites the members of the Academy into a community, which is based on the individual's love for God’.

A. adj.

a. Of, relating to, reminiscent of, or characteristic of Plato or (a particular aspect of) his philosophy; conceived after the manner of Plato.

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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [adjective] > Platonic

Platonic1533

Platonical1556

Platonian1595

Platonistic1857

1533 T. Elyot (title) Of that Knowledge, whiche maketh a wise Man. A disputation Platonike.

1638 Bp. J. Wilkins Discov. New World (1684) i. 173 'Twas an Old Platonick Principle, that there is in some part of the World such a place where Men might be Plentifully Nourished, by the Air they Breath.

1697 J. Evelyn Numismata vii. 235 More like a Platonic Notion.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. iii. iii. 167 He had..formed his Morals on the Platonic Model.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxi. 258 The familiar study of the Platonic system, a vain and argumentative disposition, a copious and flexible idiom, supplied the clergy and people of the East with an inexhaustible flow of words and distinctions.

1833 J. H. Newman Arians 4th Cent. i. 43 That comprehensive philosophy, which was reduced to system about the beginning of the third century, and then went by the name of the New Platonic, or Eclectic.

1884 tr. H. Lotze Logic 435 The Platonic expression Idea is usually rendered Universal conception.

1926 C. Connolly Let. Mar. in Romantic Friendship (1975) 119 You have become the platonic idea of so much to me.

1974 M. Tippett Moving into Aquarius 44 To use platonic language: the Idea can only be expressed by the Image.

1996 Oxf. Classical Dict. (ed. 3) 1419/2 The Platonic Socrates is utterly serious about aretē and the nature of the good and happy life.

b. Of a person: following the views of Plato; that is a Platonist.

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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > [adjective] > of Platonism > following Platonism

Platonic1636

1636 W. Davenant Witts ii. i. sig. E2 Which [bookes] though not penn'd By dull Platonick Greekes, or Memphian Priests, Yet have the blessed marke of separation Of Authors silenc'd, for wearing short haire.

1689 R. Milward Selden's Table-talk 22 The first Christians many of them were Platonick Philosophers.

1708 J. Hughes tr. B. Le Bovier de Fontenelle Dialogues of Dead 99 A Platonick Philosopher desir'd the Emperor that then reign'd, to let him have a little City of Calabria which lay in Ruins, to rebuild and politize according to the Laws of Plato's Republick.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Mariner (rev. ed.) ii, in Sibylline Leaves 11 (margin) The learned Jew, Josephus, and the Platonic Constantinopolitan, Michael Psellus, may be consulted.

1831 I. Taylor Pref. Ess. to Edwards' Freed. Will iii. 50 Commencing with the Platonic fathers, and ending with the last writers on both sides of the Calvinistic controversy.

1874 Fortn. Rev. Feb. 247 They do not contain the moral Liebig which would alone satisfy descendants of the Platonic guardians.

1924 W. Fairweather Jesus & Greeks iii. vi. 315 In spite of his critical attitude towards philosophy, and his advocacy of the religion of revelation as the one source of truth, he [sc. Tatian] remained unconsciously a Platonic thinker.

1993 Observer (Nexis) 2 May 63 It's the worst sort of lie to pretend that we are Platonic philosophers disinterestedly engaged in the pursuit of Truth.

a. Of love, affection, or friendship: intimate and affectionate but not sexual; spiritual rather than physical. Now usually with lower-case initial.

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the mind > emotion > love > [adjective] > relating to platonic or non-sexual love

Platonical1612

Platonic1631

unlibidinous1667

unamorous1668

unsensual1850

asexual1894

supersexual1895

sex-free1929

1631 B. Jonson New Inne iii. ii. 238 Most Socratick Lady! Or, if you will Ironick! gi' you ioy O' you Platonick loue here.

1638 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 5) iii. ii. i. iii. 420 It was not his person that she did embrace and reverence, but with a Platonicke love, the divine beauty of his soule.

1678 J. Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 355 Platonic Love is the Love of Beauty abstracted from all sensual Applications, and desire of Corporal Contact.

1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. iv. xv. 291 If they found themselves to be really Brother and Sister, they vowed a perpetual Celibacy, and to live together all their Days, and indulge a Platonick Friendship for each other.

1788 S. Low Politician Out-witted v. ii. 59 When I talk of a passion, superior to mere Platonic love, you are afraid.

a1817 J. Austen Lady Susan x, in Wks. (1954) VI. 258 We are advancing now towards some kind of confidence, and in short are likely to be engaged in a kind of platonic friendship.

1862 Bradford Advertiser 8 Mar. 6/1 As well might be said that Tories of the olden time only fought for..a Platonic love for rotten boroughs.

1905 ‘A. Cambridge’ Platonic Friendship v. 67 What is known as a platonic friendship is generally nothing of the kind.

1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xiii. 232 He had such a pure, childlike and platonic way of going to bed with women, that neither they nor he ever considered that the process really counted as going to bed.

1957 J. D. MacDonald Man of Affairs iii. 43 I did not see how any platonic relationship between Mike and this total woman would be possible.

1995 Daily Express 17 Mar. 29/2 If you have a physical attraction, who wants to remain platonic friends?.. But if you get into sex, the friendship goes.

b. Of a person: that feels or professes platonic love; that has a non-sexual relationship.

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the mind > emotion > love > [adjective] > relating to platonic or non-sexual love > feeling or professing platonic love

Platonic1636

1636 W. Davenant (title) The Platonic Lovers.

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 163 The Mother-in-Law of Forestus, a fruitfull woman, would not match her daughters to Platonique men.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 32. ⁋3 This Order of Platonick Ladies are to be dealt with in a peculiar Manner from all the rest of the Sex.

1797 F. Reynolds Will iv. 46 Farewell, most amiable, most Platonic pair!

1827 R. H. Dana Poems & Prose (1850) II. 334 The very next day, this Platonic lady..sets off herself for America, in search of her friend.

1872 J. Morley Voltaire ii. 43 She had ridiculed the pedantical women and platonic gallants of the Hôtel Rambouillet as the Jansenists of love.

1959 E. Webber Escape to Utopia xvii. 331 The platonic wife, Miss Waring, informed Lady Oliphant that she might write her son that a marriage was forbidden.

1989 Orange County (Calif.) Reg. (Nexis) 10 Feb. p8 These too-precious-to-be-believed platonic lovers are obviously made for each other.

3. Confined to words, theories, or ideals, and not leading to practical action; ineffectual.

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a1822 P. B. Shelley Charles I ii, in Wks. (1870) II. 379 Join in a procession to Bedlam, to entreat the madmen to omit their sublime Platonic contemplations, and manage the state of England.

1864 R. D. Blackmore Clara Vaughan II. iv. viii. 325 ‘Then you would expect me to make commercial arrangements?’ Peter laughed outright. ‘I should rather fancy not. Somewhat queer ones they would be. Platonic no doubt, and panisic.’

1964 Ann. Reg. 1963 253 France did not sign the test ban treaty, described..as ‘a purely platonic gesture’.

1986 Current Digest Soviet Press 20 Aug. 8/2 It would be more useful..if our West European partners' position was less platonic and if they made a more energetic and persistent effort to pound it into the Americans.

B. n.

1. A follower of Plato, a Platonist. Now archaic.

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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

1586 Praise of Musicke 41 The Platonicks & Pythagorians think al soules of men, are at the recordation of that celestial Musicke, whereof they were partakers in heauen.

1650 T. Vaughan Anthroposophia Theomagica 10 The Platonicks called it Nimbus Numinis Descendentis.

1707 in T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 13 June (1886) II. 20 The Primitive Fathers were Platonicks in their comments upon the Scriptures.

1786 R. P. Knight Acct. Worship of Priapus 41 The Eclectic Jews, and their followers, the Ammonian and Christian Platonics.

1840 E. B. Pusey tr. St. Augustine Confessions vii. xx. 210 But then having read those books of the Platonics.

1864 Biblical Repertory Apr. 235 This, it will be allowed, beats the Platonics, mystics, and transcendentalists of our own day.

1911 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 32 107 The Ionians, Eleatics, Pythagoreans, Atomists, Platonics appear as closed schools.

1973 C. Jencks Mod. Movements in Archit. vii. 273 It is abhorred, naturally, by the New Palladians and Platonics.

†2. A platonic lover (see sense A. 2b). Obsolete.

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the mind > emotion > love > [noun] > platonic love > platonic lover

Platonic1652

Platonist1756

1652 Perfect Diurnall No. 141. 2110 Here the eye and ear are not incestuously solicited to rapes or ravishments, we are all in this place Platonists, but not Platnoicks.

1712 J. Arbuthnot Law is Bottomless-pit viii. 15 Very pretty indeed; a Wife must never go abroad with a Platonick to see a Play or a Ball.

1760 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances (ed. 2) II. cccxlii. 401 'Till they dwindle into that Stage of Life, when, and when only, Lovers become Platonics indeed.

1832 J. K. Paulding Childe Roeliff's Pilgrimage 127 Though fashionable women can have but one husband at a time, they may have as many Platonics as they please.

3. Usually in plural: platonic love; the acts of a platonic lover.

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the mind > emotion > love > [noun] > platonic love

Platonic1755

1755 D. Garrick Let. 22 May (1963) I. 216 That Friendship is carried on a little too far..When the Platonic extends so far as Sitting upon y^e Bed for hours togeather.

1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda II. xvii. 155 Are they out o' the hornbook of platonics yet?

1874 ‘C. Reid’ Daughter of Bohemia xx, in Appleton's Jrnl. 10 Jan. 38/2 The young Bohemian had learned to look with very much the eye of a cynic upon any thing verging on platonics.

1923 R. Macaulay Told by Idiot i. 11 To Vicky a young man was a young man, and no platonics about it.

1937 ‘M. Innes’ Hamlet, Revenge! ii. vi. 173 It is one of those affairs that are laced with long-term platonics.

1992 S. Romer Plato's Ladder (BNC) 36 You spoke of a brilliant structure, a theory of everything to explain the vagaries of male behaviour that allows for our silly Platonics, our falling for the ultimate face.

Compounds

Platonic body n. Geometry = Platonic solid n.

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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [noun] > three-dimensional > regular solids

Platonical body1571

Platonic body1704

Platonic solid1762

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Platonick Bodies. See Regular Bodies.

1705 E. Scarburgh Eng. Euclide 282 The five Platonick Bodies, so much fam'd, Pythagoras first found, Plato explain'd; Euclide on them Immortal Glory gain'd.

1873 J. Booth Treat. Some New Geom. Methods I. p. xi That the principle of Duality should not have been discovered by the great geometers of Ancient Greece is the more remarkable, as the five regular solids, the Platonic bodies as they were called, were with them a favourite subject of speculation.

1952 G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. xvii. 439 If the regular solids are restricted to five, those five bodies (later called the Platonic bodies) must each have some definite meaning.

1972 Amer. Statistician 26 48/2 Kepler..fitted a sequence of platonic bodies (regular polyhedra), inscribed one within the other, to the planetary mean distances..and he set enough store by this to have a beautiful model constructed.

Platonic-Christian adj. that is both Platonic and Christian; of or relating to a conception of Christianity deeply influenced by or fused with Platonism.

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society > faith > sect > Christianity > [adjective] > and platonic

Platonic-Christian1878

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > [adjective] > of Platonism > and Christian

Platonic-Christian1878

1878 Mind 3 507 The Platonic-Christian Idealism of Rosmini had continued mainly speculative, or had only been able to lift a part of the clergy out of the Scholasticism of the Jesuits into a purer and freer thought.

1933 A. N. Whitehead Adventures of Ideas iii. 40 In the hands of theologians..the Platonic-Christian tradition leant heavily towards its mystical religious side.

1948 L. Spitzer Linguistics & Lit. Hist. 55 To Dante, all dialects appeared as inferior..realizations of a Platonic-Christian ideal pattern of language.

1960 Encounter Feb. 49/1 This is at the root of the Platonic-Christian (or religious) tradition.

1995 Internat. Stud. Q. 39 261 The validity and universal acceptance of the core assumptions of the Platonic-Christian tradition.

Platonic solid n. Geometry each of the five regular polyhedra (tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron).

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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [noun] > three-dimensional > regular solids

Platonical body1571

Platonic body1704

Platonic solid1762

1762 T. Walter New Math. Dict. at Tetraedron One of the five regular or Platonic solids, or bodies.

1853 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (ed. 3) 559/1 Hexaedron... One of the five regular or Platonic solids, so called from its having six faces.

1995 School Sci. Rev. June 122/2 Interspersed with these is the chronological pattern of events, with background discussion on the geodesic dome and the mathematics of the Platonic solids.

Platonic year n. chiefly historical (originally) a cycle postulated by some ancient astronomers, in which the celestial objects go through all their possible movements and return to their original relative positions, after which (according to some versions of the theory) all history repeats itself; (in later use identified with) the period of precession of the equinoxes (approx. 25,800 years).

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the world > the universe > heavenly body > movement of heavenly bodies > [noun] > cycle of movement

Platonic year1639

Platonical year1656

the world > time > period > cycle of time > [noun] > astronomical cycle > cycles of celestial bodies

great yeara1387

vertent year1635

Platonic year1639

saros1812

world year1845

1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre v. xxviii. 278 Except the Platonick yeare, turning the wheel of all actions round about, bring the spoke of this Holy warre back again.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Platonic Year, or the great Year, is..the Space wherein the Stars and Constellations return to their former Places, with regard to the Equinoxes... The Platonic Year, according to Tycho Brahe, is 25816; according to Ricciolus 25920; according to Cassini 24800 Years.

1884 Mind 9 251 He ridicules the fancy of the Platonic year, regarding it as a kind of symbol of the opinion that mathematical exactness is observed by nature.

1998 M. Stein Transformation 138 He [sc. Jung] goes on to speculate about the Platonic Year to come, the Age of Aquarius.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	platonic
释义	Platonicadj.n. Brit. /pləˈtɒnɪk/, U.S. /pləˈtɑnɪk/ Forms: 1500s–1600s Platonike, 1500s–1700s Platonick, 1600s Platanicke, 1600s Platonicke, 1600s Platonik, 1600s Platonique, 1600s– Platonic. Also with lower-case initial. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Platōnicus. Etymology: < classical Latin Platōnicus (adjective) of Plato or his philosophy, (noun) follower of Plato, also Platonica (neuter plural) teachings of Plato < Hellenistic Greek Πλατωνικός (adjective) of Plato or his philosophy < ancient Greek Πλάτων (classical Latin Platōn , Platō ), the name of Plato (c427–347 b.c.), Greek philosopher + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare Middle French, French platonique , noun (1486 as platonicque ) and adjective (beginning of the 16th cent. designating a school of philosophical thought, 1577 in chronology,1691 in année platonique Platonic year), Italian platonico , noun (probably 15th cent.) and adjective (a1446), early modern German platonicus , noun (1486), German platonisch , adjective (1530). With use as noun compare earlier Platonist n., Platonian n., Platonicker n.With sense A. 2a compare post-classical Latin amor platonicus (see below), Italian amor platonico (1554), German platonische Liebe (17th cent.), French amour platonique (1743; compare amour à la platonique (1659)). Post-classical Latin amor platonicus appears to have been coined by the Florentine Neoplatonic philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433–99) in his Argumentum et commentaria in Phedrum ch. 1 (probably composed c1466–8, and printed 1484; edited and translated in M. J. B. Allen Marsilio Ficino and the Phaedran charioteer (1981) 73), where the amoris platonici et socratici castitatem ‘chastity of Platonic and Socratic love’ is mentioned with allusion to the account of love in Plato Symposium 201D-212A, esp. 209B-E. The sense in which Ficino uses the phrase is summarized as follows by P. O. Kristeller in The philosophy of Marsilio Ficino (tr. V. Conant (1964) 286): ‘it is intellectual love between friends; love which unites the members of the Academy into a community, which is based on the individual's love for God’. A. adj. 1. a. Of, relating to, reminiscent of, or characteristic of Plato or (a particular aspect of) his philosophy; conceived after the manner of Plato. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [adjective] > Platonic Platonic1533 Platonical1556 Platonian1595 Platonistic1857 1533 T. Elyot (title) Of that Knowledge, whiche maketh a wise Man. A disputation Platonike. 1638 Bp. J. Wilkins Discov. New World (1684) i. 173 'Twas an Old Platonick Principle, that there is in some part of the World such a place where Men might be Plentifully Nourished, by the Air they Breath. 1697 J. Evelyn Numismata vii. 235 More like a Platonic Notion. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. iii. iii. 167 He had..formed his Morals on the Platonic Model. View more context for this quotation 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxi. 258 The familiar study of the Platonic system, a vain and argumentative disposition, a copious and flexible idiom, supplied the clergy and people of the East with an inexhaustible flow of words and distinctions. 1833 J. H. Newman Arians 4th Cent. i. 43 That comprehensive philosophy, which was reduced to system about the beginning of the third century, and then went by the name of the New Platonic, or Eclectic. 1884 tr. H. Lotze Logic 435 The Platonic expression Idea is usually rendered Universal conception. 1926 C. Connolly Let. Mar. in Romantic Friendship (1975) 119 You have become the platonic idea of so much to me. 1974 M. Tippett Moving into Aquarius 44 To use platonic language: the Idea can only be expressed by the Image. 1996 Oxf. Classical Dict. (ed. 3) 1419/2 The Platonic Socrates is utterly serious about aretē and the nature of the good and happy life. b. Of a person: following the views of Plato; that is a Platonist. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > [adjective] > of Platonism > following Platonism Platonic1636 1636 W. Davenant Witts ii. i. sig. E2 Which [bookes] though not penn'd By dull Platonick Greekes, or Memphian Priests, Yet have the blessed marke of separation Of Authors silenc'd, for wearing short haire. 1689 R. Milward Selden's Table-talk 22 The first Christians many of them were Platonick Philosophers. 1708 J. Hughes tr. B. Le Bovier de Fontenelle Dialogues of Dead 99 A Platonick Philosopher desir'd the Emperor that then reign'd, to let him have a little City of Calabria which lay in Ruins, to rebuild and politize according to the Laws of Plato's Republick. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Mariner (rev. ed.) ii, in Sibylline Leaves 11 (margin) The learned Jew, Josephus, and the Platonic Constantinopolitan, Michael Psellus, may be consulted. 1831 I. Taylor Pref. Ess. to Edwards' Freed. Will iii. 50 Commencing with the Platonic fathers, and ending with the last writers on both sides of the Calvinistic controversy. 1874 Fortn. Rev. Feb. 247 They do not contain the moral Liebig which would alone satisfy descendants of the Platonic guardians. 1924 W. Fairweather Jesus & Greeks iii. vi. 315 In spite of his critical attitude towards philosophy, and his advocacy of the religion of revelation as the one source of truth, he [sc. Tatian] remained unconsciously a Platonic thinker. 1993 Observer (Nexis) 2 May 63 It's the worst sort of lie to pretend that we are Platonic philosophers disinterestedly engaged in the pursuit of Truth. 2. a. Of love, affection, or friendship: intimate and affectionate but not sexual; spiritual rather than physical. Now usually with lower-case initial. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > [adjective] > relating to platonic or non-sexual love Platonical1612 Platonic1631 unlibidinous1667 unamorous1668 unsensual1850 asexual1894 supersexual1895 sex-free1929 1631 B. Jonson New Inne iii. ii. 238 Most Socratick Lady! Or, if you will Ironick! gi' you ioy O' you Platonick loue here. 1638 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 5) iii. ii. i. iii. 420 It was not his person that she did embrace and reverence, but with a Platonicke love, the divine beauty of his soule. 1678 J. Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 355 Platonic Love is the Love of Beauty abstracted from all sensual Applications, and desire of Corporal Contact. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. iv. xv. 291 If they found themselves to be really Brother and Sister, they vowed a perpetual Celibacy, and to live together all their Days, and indulge a Platonick Friendship for each other. View more context for this quotation 1788 S. Low Politician Out-witted v. ii. 59 When I talk of a passion, superior to mere Platonic love, you are afraid. a1817 J. Austen Lady Susan x, in Wks. (1954) VI. 258 We are advancing now towards some kind of confidence, and in short are likely to be engaged in a kind of platonic friendship. 1862 Bradford Advertiser 8 Mar. 6/1 As well might be said that Tories of the olden time only fought for..a Platonic love for rotten boroughs. 1905 ‘A. Cambridge’ Platonic Friendship v. 67 What is known as a platonic friendship is generally nothing of the kind. 1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xiii. 232 He had such a pure, childlike and platonic way of going to bed with women, that neither they nor he ever considered that the process really counted as going to bed. 1957 J. D. MacDonald Man of Affairs iii. 43 I did not see how any platonic relationship between Mike and this total woman would be possible. 1995 Daily Express 17 Mar. 29/2 If you have a physical attraction, who wants to remain platonic friends?.. But if you get into sex, the friendship goes. b. Of a person: that feels or professes platonic love; that has a non-sexual relationship. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > [adjective] > relating to platonic or non-sexual love > feeling or professing platonic love Platonic1636 1636 W. Davenant (title) The Platonic Lovers. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 163 The Mother-in-Law of Forestus, a fruitfull woman, would not match her daughters to Platonique men. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 32. ⁋3 This Order of Platonick Ladies are to be dealt with in a peculiar Manner from all the rest of the Sex. 1797 F. Reynolds Will iv. 46 Farewell, most amiable, most Platonic pair! 1827 R. H. Dana Poems & Prose (1850) II. 334 The very next day, this Platonic lady..sets off herself for America, in search of her friend. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire ii. 43 She had ridiculed the pedantical women and platonic gallants of the Hôtel Rambouillet as the Jansenists of love. 1959 E. Webber Escape to Utopia xvii. 331 The platonic wife, Miss Waring, informed Lady Oliphant that she might write her son that a marriage was forbidden. 1989 Orange County (Calif.) Reg. (Nexis) 10 Feb. p8 These too-precious-to-be-believed platonic lovers are obviously made for each other. 3. Confined to words, theories, or ideals, and not leading to practical action; ineffectual. ΚΠ a1822 P. B. Shelley Charles I ii, in Wks. (1870) II. 379 Join in a procession to Bedlam, to entreat the madmen to omit their sublime Platonic contemplations, and manage the state of England. 1864 R. D. Blackmore Clara Vaughan II. iv. viii. 325 ‘Then you would expect me to make commercial arrangements?’ Peter laughed outright. ‘I should rather fancy not. Somewhat queer ones they would be. Platonic no doubt, and panisic.’ 1964 Ann. Reg. 1963 253 France did not sign the test ban treaty, described..as ‘a purely platonic gesture’. 1986 Current Digest Soviet Press 20 Aug. 8/2 It would be more useful..if our West European partners' position was less platonic and if they made a more energetic and persistent effort to pound it into the Americans. B. n. 1. A follower of Plato, a Platonist. Now archaic. 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 1586 Praise of Musicke 41 The Platonicks & Pythagorians think al soules of men, are at the recordation of that celestial Musicke, whereof they were partakers in heauen. 1650 T. Vaughan Anthroposophia Theomagica 10 The Platonicks called it Nimbus Numinis Descendentis. 1707 in T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 13 June (1886) II. 20 The Primitive Fathers were Platonicks in their comments upon the Scriptures. 1786 R. P. Knight Acct. Worship of Priapus 41 The Eclectic Jews, and their followers, the Ammonian and Christian Platonics. 1840 E. B. Pusey tr. St. Augustine Confessions vii. xx. 210 But then having read those books of the Platonics. 1864 Biblical Repertory Apr. 235 This, it will be allowed, beats the Platonics, mystics, and transcendentalists of our own day. 1911 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 32 107 The Ionians, Eleatics, Pythagoreans, Atomists, Platonics appear as closed schools. 1973 C. Jencks Mod. Movements in Archit. vii. 273 It is abhorred, naturally, by the New Palladians and Platonics. †2. A platonic lover (see sense A. 2b). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > [noun] > platonic love > platonic lover Platonic1652 Platonist1756 1652 Perfect Diurnall No. 141. 2110 Here the eye and ear are not incestuously solicited to rapes or ravishments, we are all in this place Platonists, but not Platnoicks. 1712 J. Arbuthnot Law is Bottomless-pit viii. 15 Very pretty indeed; a Wife must never go abroad with a Platonick to see a Play or a Ball. 1760 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances (ed. 2) II. cccxlii. 401 'Till they dwindle into that Stage of Life, when, and when only, Lovers become Platonics indeed. 1832 J. K. Paulding Childe Roeliff's Pilgrimage 127 Though fashionable women can have but one husband at a time, they may have as many Platonics as they please. 3. Usually in plural: platonic love; the acts of a platonic lover. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > [noun] > platonic love Platonic1755 1755 D. Garrick Let. 22 May (1963) I. 216 That Friendship is carried on a little too far..When the Platonic extends so far as Sitting upon y^e Bed for hours togeather. 1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda II. xvii. 155 Are they out o' the hornbook of platonics yet? 1874 ‘C. Reid’ Daughter of Bohemia xx, in Appleton's Jrnl. 10 Jan. 38/2 The young Bohemian had learned to look with very much the eye of a cynic upon any thing verging on platonics. 1923 R. Macaulay Told by Idiot i. 11 To Vicky a young man was a young man, and no platonics about it. 1937 ‘M. Innes’ Hamlet, Revenge! ii. vi. 173 It is one of those affairs that are laced with long-term platonics. 1992 S. Romer Plato's Ladder (BNC) 36 You spoke of a brilliant structure, a theory of everything to explain the vagaries of male behaviour that allows for our silly Platonics, our falling for the ultimate face. Compounds Platonic body n. Geometry = Platonic solid n. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [noun] > three-dimensional > regular solids Platonical body1571 Platonic body1704 Platonic solid1762 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Platonick Bodies. See Regular Bodies. 1705 E. Scarburgh Eng. Euclide 282 The five Platonick Bodies, so much fam'd, Pythagoras first found, Plato explain'd; Euclide on them Immortal Glory gain'd. 1873 J. Booth Treat. Some New Geom. Methods I. p. xi That the principle of Duality should not have been discovered by the great geometers of Ancient Greece is the more remarkable, as the five regular solids, the Platonic bodies as they were called, were with them a favourite subject of speculation. 1952 G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. xvii. 439 If the regular solids are restricted to five, those five bodies (later called the Platonic bodies) must each have some definite meaning. 1972 Amer. Statistician 26 48/2 Kepler..fitted a sequence of platonic bodies (regular polyhedra), inscribed one within the other, to the planetary mean distances..and he set enough store by this to have a beautiful model constructed. Platonic-Christian adj. that is both Platonic and Christian; of or relating to a conception of Christianity deeply influenced by or fused with Platonism. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > [adjective] > and platonic Platonic-Christian1878 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > [adjective] > of Platonism > and Christian Platonic-Christian1878 1878 Mind 3 507 The Platonic-Christian Idealism of Rosmini had continued mainly speculative, or had only been able to lift a part of the clergy out of the Scholasticism of the Jesuits into a purer and freer thought. 1933 A. N. Whitehead Adventures of Ideas iii. 40 In the hands of theologians..the Platonic-Christian tradition leant heavily towards its mystical religious side. 1948 L. Spitzer Linguistics & Lit. Hist. 55 To Dante, all dialects appeared as inferior..realizations of a Platonic-Christian ideal pattern of language. 1960 Encounter Feb. 49/1 This is at the root of the Platonic-Christian (or religious) tradition. 1995 Internat. Stud. Q. 39 261 The validity and universal acceptance of the core assumptions of the Platonic-Christian tradition. Platonic solid n. Geometry each of the five regular polyhedra (tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [noun] > three-dimensional > regular solids Platonical body1571 Platonic body1704 Platonic solid1762 1762 T. Walter New Math. Dict. at Tetraedron One of the five regular or Platonic solids, or bodies. 1853 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (ed. 3) 559/1 Hexaedron... One of the five regular or Platonic solids, so called from its having six faces. 1995 School Sci. Rev. June 122/2 Interspersed with these is the chronological pattern of events, with background discussion on the geodesic dome and the mathematics of the Platonic solids. Platonic year n. chiefly historical (originally) a cycle postulated by some ancient astronomers, in which the celestial objects go through all their possible movements and return to their original relative positions, after which (according to some versions of the theory) all history repeats itself; (in later use identified with) the period of precession of the equinoxes (approx. 25,800 years). ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > heavenly body > movement of heavenly bodies > [noun] > cycle of movement Platonic year1639 Platonical year1656 the world > time > period > cycle of time > [noun] > astronomical cycle > cycles of celestial bodies great yeara1387 vertent year1635 Platonic year1639 saros1812 world year1845 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre v. xxviii. 278 Except the Platonick yeare, turning the wheel of all actions round about, bring the spoke of this Holy warre back again. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Platonic Year, or the great Year, is..the Space wherein the Stars and Constellations return to their former Places, with regard to the Equinoxes... The Platonic Year, according to Tycho Brahe, is 25816; according to Ricciolus 25920; according to Cassini 24800 Years. 1884 Mind 9 251 He ridicules the fancy of the Platonic year, regarding it as a kind of symbol of the opinion that mathematical exactness is observed by nature. 1998 M. Stein Transformation 138 He [sc. Jung] goes on to speculate about the Platonic Year to come, the Age of Aquarius. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1533
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