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10 words match “PLATONIST”

PLATONIST n.
One who adheres to the philosophy of Plato; a follower of Plato. Hammond.
NEOPLATONIST n.
One who held to Neoplatonism; a member of the Neoplatonic school.
ACADEMIC n.
One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist. Hume.
IDEA n.
dard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity. Thence to behold this new-created world, The addition of his empire, how it showed In prospect from his throne, how good, how fair, Answering his great…
NEOPLATONIC a.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Neoplatonism or the Neoplatonists.
NEOPLATONICIAN n.
A neoplatonist.
PLATONIC n.
A follower of Plato; a Platonist.
THEOCRASY n.
An intimate union of the soul with God in contemplation, -- an ideal of the Neoplatonists and of some Oriental mystics.
THEOSOPHY n.
uperhuman knowledge, by physical processes, as by the theurgic operations of some ancient Platonists, or by the chemical processes of the German fire philosophers; also, a direct, as distinguished from a revealed, knowledge of God, supposed to be attained by extraordinary illumination; especially, a direct insight into…
THEURGY n.
A kind of magical science or art developed in Alexandria among the Neoplatonists, and supposed to enable man to influence the will of the gods by means of purification and other sacramental rites. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.