Socratic

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Etymology

From Latin Sōcratic(us), from Ancient Greek Σωκρατικός (Sōkratikós, “of Socrates”), from Σωκράτης (Sōkrátēs, “Socrates”). By surface analysis, Socrat(es) +‎ -ic.

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Socratic (not comparable)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the philosopher Socrates or his philosophy or methods.
    Synonyms: Socratean, Socratian
    • 1976 December 11, Thom Willenbecher, “Tilden Re-Crucified”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 14:
      His closest companions were handsome young boys who worshipped him and his game, whom Bill sought to remake in his own image. He had no family, no real heirs, and so his boys were his spiritual sons as well as his heirs in tennis. They were his lovers as well. Theirs was a relationship of a Socratic sort, a pedagogical eroticism between an adolescent protege which ingaged them in a mutual project of spiritual and physical development.
    1. (specifically) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Socratic irony or the Socratic method.
      a Socratic question

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Noun

Socratic (plural Socratics)

  1. A proponent of the philosophy or methods of Socrates.

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