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verbplatonize (third-person singular simple present platonizes, present participle platonizing, simple past and past participle platonized)
present singular third person platonizes · participle present platonizing · participle past platonized · past platonized
- transitiveTo explain by, or accommodate to, the Platonic philosophy.
Either Plato philonized, or Philo platonized
1791, William Enfield, Johann Jakob Brucker, The History of Philosophy - intransitiveTo adopt the opinion of Plato or his followers.
He platonizes , after the manner of Origen , in some parts of his writings ; yet he is cited by Athanasius as a witness of the Son's consubstantiality with the Father
1794, Joseph Milner, The History of the Church of Christ
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