"Socratise" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "Socratises",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Socratising",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Socratised",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Socratised",
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        "past"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "word": "Socratize"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1879, Globe Encyclopaedia of Universal Information - Volume 5 -, page 305:",
          "text": "Why, then,' he proceeds to ask, ' can we not Socratise a little?'",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1891, John Stuart Verschoyle, The History of Modern Civilization: A Handbook, page 204:",
          "text": "Ramus, fascinated by Plato and by the dialogues in which Socrates expounds his ideas with as much simplicity as freedom, endeavoured to Socratise in his turn.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, The Twentieth Century - Volumes 176-177, page 24:",
          "text": "Insofar as it is rational it is literate (most people cannot Socratise the world's problems in their heads), and insofar as it is audio-tactile it is obtained by selective example and conditioning.",
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        }
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        "Alternative form of Socratize"
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  "word": "Socratise"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Socratises",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Socratising",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Socratised",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Socratised",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "text": "Why, then,' he proceeds to ask, ' can we not Socratise a little?'",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1891, John Stuart Verschoyle, The History of Modern Civilization: A Handbook, page 204:",
          "text": "Ramus, fascinated by Plato and by the dialogues in which Socrates expounds his ideas with as much simplicity as freedom, endeavoured to Socratise in his turn.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1968, The Twentieth Century - Volumes 176-177, page 24:",
          "text": "Insofar as it is rational it is literate (most people cannot Socratise the world's problems in their heads), and insofar as it is audio-tactile it is obtained by selective example and conditioning.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of Socratize"
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