Neoplatonistn.adj.

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Marginalia (1984) I. 296 The first principles of Behmen are to be found in the Writings of the Neo-platonists.

1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. iv. iii. 284 Ammonius Saccas..is looked upon as the beginner of the Neoplatonists.

1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia I. Pref. p. viii The great Neo-Platonists were..persons of the most rigid and ascetic virtue.

1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 263 The dislike of the body..which was afterwards so strongly felt by the Neoplatonists.

1906 Expositor Aug. 163 The Christian schematists adjusted to the theogony of the Neoplatonists the Scripture doctrine of God.

1957 G. S. Kirk & J. E. Raven Presocratic Philosophers 1 The Neoplatonist Simplicius,..who lived a whole millennium after the Presocratics, made long and evidently accurate quotations, in particular from Parmenides, Empedocles, [etc.].

1991 Renaissance Stud. 5 435 Whereas Florentine men strove..to match the knightly image by staging tournaments, Florentine Neoplatonists played the other side of the game of courtly love to the hilt.

1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia I. ii. 43 The old Jewish blood still beat true, under all its affected shell of Neo-Platonist nonchalance.

1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals I. 356 The Pythagorean and Neoplatonist [(ed. 3) Neoplatonic] schools.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 244/1 Neoplatonist philosopher..born of a noble Cappadocian family.

1951 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 12 188 That Avempace's philosophical orientation was in large measure that of the Neo-Platonist wing of Arabian philosophy, is indicated by such scraps of evidence as we possess.

1987 G. Phelps Short Guide to World Novel (1988) 54 The preference was still for the generalised, the abstract, & the universal (though with a Neo-Platonist world picture on the whole replacing the predominantly Aristotelian one of the earlier Middle Ages).