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Socratic, a. and n.|səʊˈkrætɪk|
Also 7 -ick.
[ad. L. Sōcraticus, ad. Gr. σωκρατικός, f. σωκράτης Socrates. So F. Socratique.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to, characteristic of, Socrates the Athenian philosopher, or his philosophy, methods, character, etc.
a1637B. Jonson Horace, Art Paint. 442 Thy matter first to know, Which the Socratic writings best can show. 1655Stanley Hist. Philos. (1687) iii. 120 Simon..is reported the first that used the Socratick Discourses. 1741Watts Improv. Mind i. ix. §19 By questions aptly proposed in the Socratic method. Ibid. x. §14 But there are three sorts of disputation,..which are distinguished by these three names, namely, socratic, forensic, and academic. 1778Burnaby in Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) II. 103 As philosophical and Socratic as ever. 1847Emerson Repres. Men, Plato Wks. (Bohn) I. 307 Plato's fame does not stand on a syllogism, or on any masterpieces of the Socratic reasoning. 1874Mahaffy Soc. Life Greece x. 294 A marked feature in the Socratic society.
B. n. A follower of Socrates.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 408 To Plato we might here joyn Xenophon, because he was his Equal, and a Socratick too. 1875Jevons Money 197 Aeschines the Socratic. 1886Athenæum 21 Aug. 230/2 The practical agreement of Plato and Aristotle, the two Socratics, on the main problems of ethics. |