Platonistn.

1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 6th Serm. sig. U.iii^v He [sc. St Augustine] became of a Maniche, and of a platoniste a good christian.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Miii/1 Platoniste, Platonista.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §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.

1694 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding (new ed.) ii. xxvii. 184 Suppose a Christian Platonist or Pythagorean, should upon God's having ended all his Works of Creation the Seventh Day, think his Soul hath existed ever since.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. iii. iii. 166 In Morals he was a profest Platonist, and in Religion he inclined to be an Aristotelian. View more context for this quotation

1787 J. Hawkins Life Johnson 542 Dr. Henry More, of Cambridge, he did not much affect: he was a platonist, and, in Johnson's opinion, a visionary.

1836 N. Wiseman Lects. Princ. Doctr. Catholic Church I. i. 13 Through the impulse of the great Platonist schools in the east.

1882 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. I. 640 [Diodorus] combated Platonists and Porphyrians, Manichaeans and Apollinarists.

1924 C. Connolly Let. 31 Oct. in Romantic Friendship (1975) 25 I am becoming rather a strong Platonist in the matter of ideals.

1959 H. Gardner Business of Crit. i. iii. 73 Even the most ardent Platonists were forced..to face the implication of the unquestioned assumption that the active, or masculine principle is superior to the passive, or feminine.

1995 Fellowship Catholic Scholars Newslet. July 28/2 We can remember his delight in finally coming across the Platonists who freed him from so much confusion.

1756 (title) Memoirs of a young lady of quality, a Platonist.

1895 Westm. 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.