[f. SOCRATIC + -ISM.] The philosophy of Socrates or some aspect of this. Also Socratism (Todd, 1818).
1832. H. Oakes, in Colonist, 14 Dec., 3/1. I am unwilling to suffer this anonymous scribbler’s socraticism to pass altogether unnoticed.
1878. Sidgwick, in Encycl. Brit., VIII. 579/1. The ultimate views of these two one-sided Socraticisms.
