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Webster 1913 Edition


Esemplastic

Esˊem-plas′tic

,
Adj.
[Gr.
ἐσ
into, to +
ἑν
one +
πλαστικόσ
molded, formed. See
Plastic
.]
Shaped into one; tending to, or formative into, unity.
[R.]
Coleridge.

Definition 2024


esemplastic

esemplastic

English

Adjective

esemplastic (comparative more esemplastic, superlative most esemplastic)

  1. Unifying; having the power to shape disparate things into a unified whole.
    • 2003: he [...] developed a doctrine of the organic (‘esemplastic’) imagination, over and against the passive and mechanical faculty of ‘fancy’ — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 405)