Socratize

English Alternative forms en Socratise socratize Etymology From en Socrates ize. Verb To be like Socrates. ...they started up a-stare At the half-helot captain and his crew —Spartans, "men used to let their hair grow long, To fast, be dirty, and just — Socratize " — Whose word was "Trample on Themistokles!" en 2008 The Unity of the Proposition Richard Gaskin 271 In this case the principle fails because there is (to put the anti-Fregean's case in Fregean terms) nothing that does not Socratize if and only if wisdom does Socratize. To explore an idea by probing questions. en 1884 History of French Literature Christiana Bridge 110 Socrates is satisfied to discuss with good sense, and is willing to examine, and to appeal to reason rather than to authority.” Then he asks himself if he cannot “Socratize” too, and the revolutionary standard is unfurled. en 1917 Teachers' Problems and how to Solve Them Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie It is the teacher's duty to assign tasks to warn and to chastise; one favorite Pestalozzian method was to "Socratize," or, catechizing for cultivation of intellect and spiritual exercise. en 1952 The Philosophical Review - Volume 61 Jacob Gould Schurman; James Edwin Creighton; Frank Thilly 129 It is impossible to Socratize five-hundred students all at once. en 2006 Haitian laughter Georges Anglade 165 Everyone was unwinding after the weekly tensions of our final year—from the professor before us (who would Socratize in a bantering, conversational tone with teenagers) to the gang at the back of the room, half-heartedly following the dialogued chain of ideas in this majeutical formulation. en 2011 Coffee - Philosophy for Everyone: Grounds for Debate 75 It just so happens that coffeehouses are particularly good places to Socratize. en rare To sodomize. en c. 1888 “Walter” My Secret Life (memoir) My Secret Life 1995 My Secret Life 3 9780099303619 283 Turning both side ways, our genitals in a heap, the sight overwhelmed me, yet lust, a desire to Socratize him – as nearly as I can define my sensations – scarcely entered into the confused and lustful combinations, caused by my clasping him as if he were a woman. en 1966 1785 w:Marquis de Sade w:Austryn Wainhouse; w:Richard Seaver The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings 448 After he had done considerable sucking, I took up another whip, laid on a second time and socratized him again, he knelt as before and returned to his licking, and so it went, each of us doing his part at least fifteen times over. en 1981 Dennis Kelly Albert Size Queen and Other Poems San Francisco, CA Gay Sunshine Press 11 https://archive.org/details/sizequeenotherpo0000kell/page/10/mode/2up?q=Socratize 0-917342-81-X Get real man, I know / quality when I see it, each / sixpack brings you closer to / divinity. Laid back now that / I’m 36 & middle-aged, even so / I like to Socratize with / youngmen. Derived terms en Socratizer Anagrams en aceiorstz Croatizes ostracize en eponyms