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Plotinian, a.|pləʊˈtɪnɪən|
[f. L. Plōtīnus, a. Gr. Πλωτῖνος, proper name.]
Of or pertaining to Plotinus (a.d. c 204–270), the most noted philosopher of the Neo-Platonic school, the doctrines of which he taught at Rome. So Ploˈtinic, Ploˈtinical adjs., in same sense; ˈPlotinism, the system or teaching of Plotinus; ˈPlotinist, a follower of Plotinus; ˈPlotinize v. intr., to imitate, or philosophize in the manner of, Plotinus.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 4 It must needs fall under one or other of those two General Heads in the Plotinical Distribution last mentioned. Ibid. 152 Which Plotinick Doctrine, may well pass for a Commentary upon Empedocles. 1791W. Enfield Hist. Philos. II. iii. ii. 69 We shall trace the progress of the Plotinian, or Eclectic, school. 1864Webster, Plotinist. 1871J. S. Mill in Fortn. Rev. X. 524 A heap of useless and mostly unintelligible jargon, not of his own [sc. Berkeley's] but of the Plotinists. 1879McClintock & Strong Encycl. Bibl. Lit. VIII. 296/2 Creuzer condenses his summary of the Plotinian doctrine into three theses. 1882–3Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. II. 1854 They Plotinized even more than they Platonized in their religious philosophy. 1906W. M. Macintyre in Expositor Feb. 162 According to the Plotinist, mental prayer..has this office committed to it, to elevate the sense-life into the life of reason. 1969T. F. Torrance Theol. Sci. i. 18 This was the Augustinian doctrine of the sacramental universe, combining Plotinian and Ptolemaic notions in a ‘Christian’ cosmology. |