esemplastic

== English == === Etymology === From Greek ἐς ‘into’ + ἕν + πλαστικός (from πλάσσειν ‘to mould’). Coined by Coleridge, probably after German ineinsbildung ‘forming into one’. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɛsɛmˈplæstɪk/ Rhymes: -æstɪk === Adjective === esemplastic (not comparable) Unifying; having the power to shape disparate things into a unified whole. 1893: all the verses when taken together [...] are deficient in harmony, and consequently there is little or no fusion. The esemplastic power of the writer's feeling was not strong enough, did not extend beyond the individual verse. — Hiram Corson, A Primer of English Verse (pp. 21–22) 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) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ====