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a.
Alt. of Platonical
n.
Any system of philosophy or mysticism which proposes to attain intercourse with God and superior spirits, and consequent superhuman knowledge, by physical processes, as by the theurgic operations of some ancient Platonists, or by the chemical processes of the German fire philosophers; also, a direct, as distinguished from a revealed, knowledge of God, supposed to be attained by extraordinary illumination; especially, a direct insight into the processes of the divine mind, and the interior relations of the divine nature.
n.
One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.
n.
One who adheres to the philosophy of Plato; a follower of Plato.
v. i.
To adopt the opinion of Plato or his followers.
n.
An elevated rational and ethical conception of the laws and forces of the universe; sometimes, imaginative or fantastic philosophical notions.
n.
One who Platonizes.
v. t.
To explain by, or accomodate to, the Platonic philosophy.
a.
Serving to show or exhibit; as, an endeictic dialogue, in the Platonic philosophy, is one which exhibits a specimen of skill.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Platonize
a.
Pure, passionless; nonsexual; philosophical.
adv.
In a Platonic manner.
a.
Of or pertaining to Plato, or his philosophy, school, or opinions.
n.
A follower of Plato; a Platonist.
n.
The doctrines or philosophy by Plato or of his followers.
n.
A pantheistic eclectic school of philosophy, of which Plotinus was the chief (A. D. 205-270), and which sought to reconcile the Platonic and Aristotelian systems with Oriental theosophy. It tended to mysticism and theurgy, and was the last product of Greek philosophy.
n.
A disciple of Plotinus, a celebrated Platonic philosopher of the third century, who taught that the human soul emanates from the divine Being, to whom it reunited at death.
n.
A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity.
imp. & p. p.
of Platonize
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