platty (plat i)

[ Plat on is tic (pla-to-nis'tik), a. [ Platonist + c. Of or pertaining to Plato or his followers, plats or bare spots, as grain-fields sometimes or the Platonic doctrines; characteristic of the have. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] IMG:content-0376.jpg:[blocks in formation] Hitherto Philo; wherein, after his usual wont, he pla tonizes ; the same being in effect to be found in Plato's Hake will , Apology, II. vi. § 2. Timæus. The imagination instinctively Platonizes , and it is the e ence of poetry that it should be unconventional, that the soul of it should subordinate the outward parts. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 402. II. trans. To explain on the principles of the Platonic school, or to accommodate to those principles. Also spelled Platonise . Platonizer (plā tō-ni-zér), n. One who Platonizes; a Platonist. Also spelled Plat on i ser . Philo the Jew, who was a great platonizer , calls the stars divine images, and incorruptible and immortal souls. Dr. A. Young , Idolatrous Corruptions in Religion, I. 109. [ plature (plā'tūr), n. [NL. Platurus , q. v.] A broad-tailed humming-bird of the genus Pla- turus.