Platonisticadj.

1856 J. H. Seelye tr. A. Schwegler Hist. Philos. in Epitome v. 24 His new-Platonistic biographers, Porphyry and Jamblichus, have treated his life as a historico-philosophical romance.]

1857 A. P. Peabody Lect. Christian Doctr. 47 There was indeed a seeming exception to this remark, in a numerous sect of Platonistic Jews, whose headquarters were at Alexandria.

1859 W. Key Lect. St. Augustine 12 He was speaking with an aged Christian about some Platonistic books.

1919 H. O. Taylor Medieval Mind II. xxxvii. 400 He had also a Platonistic imagination.

1953 M. H. Abrams Mirror & Lamp i. 29 Shelley's Platonistic ‘Defence of Poetry’.

1998 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 8 Feb. h7 It was only later that dualistic, Platonistic views were incorporated, and they then began to explain the afterlife in more complicated ways.

1951 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 12 100 Platonistically speaking, knowledge of a class like mankind does not call for knowledge of its full membership, but for knowledge of its defining property, humanity.

1977 G. 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.

1988 Mind 92 599 There exists a proof of S (where ‘exists’ can be understood platonistically or modally..) which it is possible for us to come to contemplate.