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Socrates

//ˈsɒkɹətiːz// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A male given name from Ancient Greek of mostly historical use, known after a Greek philosopher.

    "Accordingly, even though readers always and understandably speak of the theories adumbrated by Socrates here as "Plato's theories", one ought not to speak of them so without some compunction--the writing itself, and also Plato the author, present these always in a spirit of open-ended exploration, and sometimes there are contextual clues indicating that Socrates exaggerates or goes what the argument truly justifies, and so on."

Noun
  1. 1
    Acronym of site, onset, character, radiation, associations, timecourse, exacerbating and relieving factors, and severity (of pain). abbreviation, acronym, alt-of

Etymology

Via Latin Socrates, from Ancient Greek Σωκράτης (Sōkrátēs). Doublet of Sokratis.

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