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Philosophate
Phi-los′o-phate
,Verb.
I.
[L.
philosophatus
, p. p. of philosophari
to philosophize.] To play the philosopher; to moralize.
[Obs.]
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Definition 2024
philosophate
philosophate
English
Verb
philosophate (third-person singular simple present philosophates, present participle philosophating, simple past and past participle philosophated)
- (rare) To philosophize.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.3:
- If, as some say, to philosophate be to doubt; with much more reason, to rave and fantastiquize, as I doe, must necessarily be to doubt […].
- 1661, Thomas Salusbury, translating Galileo Galilei, Dialogues on Two World Systems:
- Logick, as it is well understood, is the Organe with which we philosophate […].
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.3: