"esemplastic" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ɛsɛmˈplæstɪk/
Rhymes: -æstɪk Etymology: From Greek ἐς ‘into’ + ἕν + πλαστικός (from πλάσσειν ‘to mould’). Coined by Coleridge, probably after German ineinsbildung ‘forming into one’. Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} esemplastic (not comparable)
  1. Unifying; having the power to shape disparate things into a unified whole. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-esemplastic-en-adj--jBgHTsZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "text": "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)"
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          "text": "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)"
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