单词 | pythagoreanize |
释义 | Pythagoreanizev. 1. intransitive. = Pythagorize v. 1. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > pre-Socratic schools of philosophy > pre-Socratic philosophy [verb (intransitive)] > specific schools Pythagorize1603 Anaxagorize1678 atomize1678 Pythagoreanize1886 1886 [see Pythagoreanizing adj. at Derivatives]. 1890 Cent. Dict. Pythagoreanize, same as Pythagorize. 1990 D. O'Meara Pythagoras Revived ii. iv. 96 It will soon emerge that a tendency to Pythagoreanize is a very significant feature of these commentaries. 2. transitive. To render Pythagorean in character; to imbue with the philosophy of Pythagoras. ΚΠ 1919 Proc. Brit. Acad. 8 116 The school under Socrates must have become more than half Pythagoreanized. 1961 B. Farrington Greek Sci. 91 Astronomy was Pythagoreanized and Platonized within a few generations of the Ionian dawn. 1976 MLN 91 1112 In centralizing ratios he may anyway be said to be Pythagoreanizing Cassirer. 2003 G. Endress in J. P. Hogendijk & A. I. Sabra Enterprise of Sci. in Islam v. 125 Iamblichus..put forward a plan to pythagoreanize Platonic philosophy. Derivatives Pythagoˈreanizing adj. [compare Pythagorizing adj.] ΚΠ 1886 Mind 11 89 The theory of Xenocrates appears..to have been in fact atomism as interpreted by a Pythagoreanising Platonist. 2001 M. W. Dickie Magic & Magicians in Greco-Roman World viii. 209 What remains is the figure of the Pythagoreanizing doctor who practises magic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1886 |
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