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[Eng., ., Plotin (us); -ian.} Belonging to or connected with the doctrines of the Plotinists (q. v.). Plō-tin-ist, s. [See def.] Philosophy, . ( pl .): The followers of Plot in us (A. D. 204-74), the most noted teacher of Newer Platonism, which he taught at Rome for the last thirty years of his life. He considered the human soul an emanation from the Deity, to whom, after a virtuous life on earth. it was reunited; souls unfitted for such union were to pa through other purificatory existences, either once more as men, or as animals or plants.