Pythagorizev.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 819 Pythagoras affirmed, that of the five solid bodies, which are also called Mathematicall..; of Dodecaedra with twelve faces, [was made] the supreame sphaere of the universall world: and [Plato] himselfe herein also doth Pythagorize [Fr. Platon mesme en ceste opinion suit Pythagoras; Gk. Πλάτων δὲ καὶ ἐν τούτοις πυθαγορίζει; L. Plato in his quoque Pythagoram imitatur].

1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God x. xxx. 401 Plato, Pythagorizing [L. Pythagorae opinionem secutus], held that the soules after death passed into other bodies.

1666 Bp. S. Parker Free Censvre Platonick Philos. (1667) 48 The latter Platonists..especially those of them that did most Pythagorize.

1843 W. Roberts Hist. Letter-writing viii. 81 Adepts in the Italic philosophy, who, if they were not strictly Pythagoreans, may at least be said to have Pythagorized with all the pretensions of that proud sect.

1854 C. D. Yonge tr. Athenæus Deipnosophists I. iv. 262 All who talk such nonsense Should be confined to herbs, and should be sent To Diodorus the philosopher, And starve, and so pythagorize with him.

1916 J. E. Carpenter Phases Early Christianity 290 The new Pythagoreans Platonized; and the Platonists Pythagorized.

1978 W. K. C. Guthrie Hist. Greek Philos. V. viii. 441 Ben Jonson did not mention his sources when he Pythagorized in the Masque of Hymen.

1995 Vigiliae Christianae 49 11 Plato was regarded as having ‘Pythagorized’, not only in the Timaeus, but throught his entire œuvre.

1631 J. Done Polydoron 211 If our godlesse dainty gallants were but so pythagorized, how they would wish they had lived better.

1721 A. Ramsay Morning Interview 253 O happiest of herbs! who would not be Pythagoriz'd into the form of thee, And with high transports act the part of tea!

1854 J. R. Dix Pulpit Portraits xv. 176 The books seem endued with vitality, and..I regard them as actual living things, as brains Pythagorized into books.

1632 W. S. in J. Vicars tr. Virgil XII Aeneids sig. A8^v If poëtrie pythagorize, Virgil in Vicars sacred breast survives.

1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs 184 Peradventure the Shop of choler from the very thresh-hold of life hath Pythagorized into the private ware-house of the head.

1875 J. B. Lightfoot St. Paul's Epist. Colossians 146 Satirised..as ‘pythagorizers’, in other words as total abstainers and vegetarians.

1947 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 68 125 Moreau argues..that De Caelo..shows that Pythagorizers contemporary with Aristotle tried to establish a strict parallelism between the structure of the universe and that of an animal.

1997 V. Tejera Rewriting Hist. Anc. Greek Philos. v. 91 Speusippos, who initiated the Academic reinterpretation of the dialogues, was himself an idealist whom Aristotle identifies as a pythagorizer.