socratize

present singular third person socratizes · participle present socratizing · participle past socratized · past socratized

1. alternativeAlternative form of Socratize.

   It is, of course, any editor's obligation to "socratize" these matters, to make interpretations as provisional hypotheses for readers to test through their own questioning and analysis.

   2002, John Bryant, The Fluid Text, page 165

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   And so long as the Spanish Cortes is not an assembly of Adonises, Antinouses, boys, and other similar angels; so long as one goes there to legislate and not to socratize or wander through imaginary hemispheres, we believe that the government should not be deterred by those obstacles.

   1964, José Rizal, Political and historical writings, page 148

   ...he gets to his feet, bestows further kisses upon his little partner, exposes to her view a great ass of very evil aspect and very unclean, and he orders her to give it a throrough shaking, to socratize it; ...

   1966, The Marquis de Sade, Austryn Wainhouse, Richard Seaver, The 120 Days of Sodom: and Other Writings

   “I kiss your Priapus,” Poittevin wrote frequently to Flaubert. “Adieu, dear Pederast,” “Adieu, old buddy, I kiss you and socratize you,” were standard greetings in Poittevin's missives to his friend in Croisset.

   1994, Francine du Plessix Gray, Rage and Fire: A Life of Louise Colet, Pioneer Feminist, Literary Star, Flaubert's Muse, page 123

   Aristophanes made fun of a rather different sort of imitator a year later in the Birds (produced in 422 BCE), coining the comic verb “socratize” to describe odd people in Athens who “wear long hair, go hungry and wild, socratize—and carry sticks!

   2015, W. Martin Bloomer, A Companion to Ancient Education, page 79

present singular third person Socratizes · participle present Socratizing · participle past Socratized · past Socratized · alternative Socratise · alternative socratize

1. To be like Socrates.

   In this case the principle fails because there is (to put the anti-Fregean's case in Fregean terms) nothing that does not Socratize if and only if wisdom does Socratize.

   2008, Richard Gaskin, The Unity of the Proposition, page 271

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   ...they started up a-stare At the half-helot captain and his crew —Spartans, "men used to let their hair grow long, To fast, be dirty, and just — Socratize " — Whose word was "Trample on Themistokles!"

   1887, Robert Browning, Red Cotton Night-cap Country: Aristophanes' Apology

   1. To explore an idea by probing questions.

      It is impossible to Socratize five-hundred students all at once.

      1952, Jacob Gould Schurman, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, The Philosophical Review - Volume 61, page 129

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      Socrates is satisfied to discuss with good sense, and is willing to examine, and to appeal to reason rather than to authority.” Then he asks himself if he cannot “Socratize” too, and the revolutionary standard is unfurled.

      1884, Christiana Bridge, History of French Literature, page 110

      It is the teacher's duty to assign tasks to warn and to chastise; one favorite Pestalozzian method was to "Socratize," or, catechizing for cultivation of intellect and spiritual exercise.

      1917, Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie, Teachers' Problems and how to Solve Them

      Everyone was unwinding after the weekly tensions of our final year—from the professor before us (who would Socratize in a bantering, conversational tone with teenagers) to the gang at the back of the room, half-heartedly following the dialogued chain of ideas in this majeutical formulation.

      2006, Georges Anglade, Haitian laughter, page 165

      It just so happens that coffeehouses are particularly good places to Socratize.

      2011, Coffee - Philosophy for Everyone: Grounds for Debate, page 75

   2. rareTo sodomize.

      Get real man, I know / quality when I see it, each / sixpack brings you closer to / divinity. Laid back now that / I’m 36 & middle-aged, even so / I like to Socratize with / youngmen.

      1981, Dennis Kelly, “Albert”, in Size Queen and Other Poems, San Francisco, CA: Gay Sunshine Press, →ISBN, page 11

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      Turning both side ways, our genitals in a heap, the sight overwhelmed me, yet lust, a desire to Socratize him – as nearly as I can define my sensations – scarcely entered into the confused and lustful combinations, caused by my clasping him as if he were a woman.

      c. 1888, “Walter”, My Secret Life; republished as My Secret Life, volume 3, 1995, →ISBN, page 283

      After he had done considerable sucking, I took up another whip, laid on a second time and socratized him again, he knelt as before and returned to his licking, and so it went, each of us doing his part at least fifteen times over.

      1966 [1785], Marquis de Sade, translated by Austryn Wainhouse and Richard Seaver, The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings, page 448