Socratize

verb3

1. •
   To be like Socrates.

   • In this case the principle fails because there is (to put the anti-Fregean's case in Fregean terms) nothing that does not Socratize if and only if wisdom does Socratize. — 2008
2. •
   To explore an idea by probing questions.

   • It is the teacher's duty to assign tasks to warn and to chastise; one favorite Pestalozzian method was to "Socratize," or, catechizing for cultivation of intellect and spiritual exercise. — 1917
3. •
   (rare) To sodomize.

   • Get real man, I know / quality when I see it, each / sixpack brings you closer to / divinity. Laid back now that / I’m 36 & middle-aged, even so / I like to Socratize with / youngmen. — 1981