Definition of Platonistic

1. Adjective. Pertaining to or characteristic of or in accordance with Platonism.

Partainyms: Platonism
Derivative terms: Platonism

Lexicographical Neighbors of Platonistic

Plato's Academy
Plato's Cave
Platonian
Platonic body
Platonic dialogue
Platonic hydrocarbon
Platonic hydrocarbons
Platonic solid
Platonic solids
Platonic year
Platonick
Platonism
Platonist
Platonistic
Platonists
Platt National Park
Plattdeutsch
Platte
Platte River
Platte River penstemon
Plattensee
Platycephalidae
Platycerium
Platycerium alcicorne
Platycerium andinum
Platycerium bifurcatum
Platycladus orientalis
Platyctenea

Literary usage of Platonistic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Knight's Quarterly Magazine by Charles Knight (1824)
"EROS AND ANTEROS, A platonistic Romance. HM " He who from out their fountain dwellings raised Eros and Anteros at Gadara."—LORD BYRON'S Manfred. ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Simultaneously, the Logos theory conformed to the current Neo- platonistic dualism in Alexandria : the Logos is not conceived of as nature or immanent ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The humanists who in the first decades of the 16th century defeated the scholastic world and who fought for literary- aesthetic ideals and platonistic ..."

4. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"His tendencies were strongly platonistic and realistic ; the most interesting of his speculations are perhaps those which develop the Epicurean atomic ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The humanists who in the first decades of the 16th century defeated the scholastic world and who fought for literary- aesthetic ideals and platonistic ..."

6. The Mediaeval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in by Henry Osborn Taylor (1919)
"He was one of those extreme realists whose teachings might bear pantheistic fruit in his disciples; he had also a platonistic ..."

7. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Aristotle formed his framework, and the packing in of much Augustinian-platonistic material naturally resulted in serious contradictions. ..."

8. Knight's Quarterly Magazine by Charles Knight (1824)
"EROS AND ANTEROS, A platonistic Romance. HM " He who from out their fountain dwellings raised Eros and Anteros at Gadara."—LORD BYRON'S Manfred. ..."

9. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Simultaneously, the Logos theory conformed to the current Neo- platonistic dualism in Alexandria : the Logos is not conceived of as nature or immanent ..."

10. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The humanists who in the first decades of the 16th century defeated the scholastic world and who fought for literary- aesthetic ideals and platonistic ..."

11. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"His tendencies were strongly platonistic and realistic ; the most interesting of his speculations are perhaps those which develop the Epicurean atomic ..."

12. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The humanists who in the first decades of the 16th century defeated the scholastic world and who fought for literary- aesthetic ideals and platonistic ..."

13. The Mediaeval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in by Henry Osborn Taylor (1919)
"He was one of those extreme realists whose teachings might bear pantheistic fruit in his disciples; he had also a platonistic ..."

14. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Aristotle formed his framework, and the packing in of much Augustinian-platonistic material naturally resulted in serious contradictions. ..."

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