Socratise

Verb

Socratize (third-person singular simple present Socratizes, present participle Socratizing, simple past and past participle Socratized)

1. To be like Socrates.
   • ...they started up a-stare At the half-helot captain and his crew —Spartans, "men used to let their hair grow long, To fast, be dirty, and just — Socratize " — Whose word was "Trample on Themistokles!"1887, Robert Browning, Red Cotton Night-cap Country: Aristophanes' Apology
   1. To explore an idea by probing questions.
      • Socrates is satisfied to discuss with good sense, and is willing to examine, and to appeal to reason rather than to authority.” Then he asks himself if he cannot “Socratize” too, and the revolutionary standard is unfurled.1884, Christiana Bridge, History of French Literature, page 110
   2. (rare) To sodomize.
      • Turning both side ways, our genitals in a heap, the sight overwhelmed me, yet lust, a desire to Socratize him – as nearly as I can define my sensations – scarcely entered into the confused and lustful combinations, caused by my clasping him as if he were a woman.c. 1888, “Walter”, My Secret Life; republished as My Secret Life, volume 3, 1995, →ISBN, page 283