Platonic

(pla-ton'ik.) Belonging or having reference to Plato, his school, philosophy, opinions, and the like. Thus, P. solids, or bodies, are the 5 regular geometrical bodies described by Plato, viz., the tetrahedron, octahedron, hexahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron. Except these, no solids can be bounded by like, equal, and regular plane figures, whose solid angles are all equal. -P. LOVE signifies a pure spiritual affection, subsisting between persons of opposite sex, and regarding no object but the mind and its excellences. It is also sometimes understood as a sincere disinterested friendship between persons of the same sex, abstracted from any selfish views, and regarding no other object than the individual so esteemed. [s. 715]