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- adjective Obsolete form of
Platonic .
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Examples
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William Temple, the "Platonick" friendship between the young girl and
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At court, Queen Henrietta Maria encouraged the cult of "Platonick Love," a puzzling concept, you might think, for poets with degenerate lifestyles, but it proved an excuse for many of them to write about the conflict between sensual appetites and platonic love's abstract ideals.
Pens at the Ready Mark Archer 2011
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Prosperity are as far off as the great _Platonick_ Year.
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Faith; I am now content to understand a mystery without a rigid definition, in an easier and Platonick description.
Religio Medici 1605-1682 1923
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Since I was of understanding to know we knew nothing, my reason hath been more pliable to the will of Faith; I am now content to understand a mystery without a rigid definition, in an easier and Platonick description.
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Virgil, who has cast the whole System of Platonick
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Opinion of Platonick Love: for which Reason I thought it necessary to give my fair Readers a Caution against it, having, to my great Concern, observed the Waste of a Platonist lately swell to a Roundness which is inconsistent with that Philosophy.
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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Platonick Year, that after such a certain Revolution of Time, all
The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon Daniel Defoe 1696
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_Virgil_, who has cast the whole System of _Platonick_ Philosophy, so far as it relates to the Soul of Man, in beautiful Allegories, in the sixth Book of his _Æneid_ gives us the Punishment of a Voluptuary after
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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Torments of such a kind of Tantalism, or _Platonick_ Hell, as that which we have now under Consideration.
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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