OXFORD DICTIONARY
socratic, adj. & n.
--adj. of or relating to the Greek philosopher Socrates (d. 399 BC) or his philosophy, esp. the method associated with him of seeking the truth by a series of questions and answers.
--n. a follower of Socrates.
Socratic irony a pose of ignorance assumed in order to entice others into making statements that can then be challenged.
Socratically adv.
L Socraticus f. Gk Sokratikos f. Sokrates
THESAURUS
socratic
Augustinian, Averroist, Berkeleian, Cartesian, Hegelian, Heideggerian, Heraclitean, Humean, Husserlian, Kantian, Leibnizian, Neo-Hegelian, Neo-Pythagorean, Neoplatonic, Parmenidean, Peripatetic, Platonic, Pyrrhonic, Pythagorean, Sartrian, Schellingian, Schopenhauerian, Scotist, Spencerian, Thomist, Thomistic, Viconian, Wittgensteinian, pre-Socratic