Adams sends New Platonics on to the Eclectics and gives Plotinus his own entry, the ascent-of-the-soul philosophy that stands directly behind the Hermetic corpus.
In Hannah Adams
In Adams’s own words, from the 1817 Dictionary. Each passage is quoted verbatim under its own entry.
PLOTINISTS, the disciples of Plotinus, a celebrated platonic philosopher, the disciple of Ammonius, who founded the sect.of the Academists, the popular philosophy during the first ages of christianity. See Academics and /Immonians.
Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations, 4th ed. (Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1817), entry “Plotinists” (p. 225).