Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To degrade from the character of a philosopher.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To degrade from the character of a philosopher.
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- verb transitive To
degrade from the character of aphilosopher .
Etymologies
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It was actually first used so far as we know by Alexander Pope, in a letter of 1713: "Our passions, our interests, flow in upon us, and unphilosophize us into mere mortals."
The Consolation of Unphilosophy Gregory Feeley 2005
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It was actually first used so far as we know by Alexander Pope, in a letter of 1713: "Our passions, our interests, flow in upon us, and unphilosophize us into mere mortals."
Archive 2005-09-01 Gregory Feeley 2005
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I could not exactly play the Stoic with a woman--who had scrambled eight hundred miles to unphilosophize me. posted by Gregory Feeley at 9:24 AM
The Consolation of Unphilosophy Gregory Feeley 2005
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I could not exactly play the Stoic with a woman--who had scrambled eight hundred miles to unphilosophize me. posted by Gregory Feeley at 9:24 AM
Archive 2005-09-01 Gregory Feeley 2005
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But we must return (through our very condition of being) to our narrow selves, and those things that affect ourselves: our passions, our interests flow in upon us and unphilosophize us into mere mortals.
Selected English Letters Various 1913
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