Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Molding, shaping, or fashioning into one.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Shaped into one; tending to, or formative into, unity.
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- adjective
Unifying ; having the power to shapedisparate things into a unifiedwhole .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And though the earlier books sometimes exposed his infatuation with James Joyce in their weakness for five-dollar words "esemplastic" or "callipygiated", the style here has the sleekness and strength of good crime noir.
Corruption on the Hudson Sam Sacks 2011
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Saturday, I utilized my esemplastic power (look it up) and created a fun and exciting, eventful evening for myself downtown with many various cool people I know, starting with driving down there alone to meet up with Kitty and her new beau and his gorgeous sister for dinner.
YIPPEEEEE! barbylon 2002
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Saturday, I utilized my esemplastic power (look it up) and created a fun and exciting, eventful evening for myself downtown with many various cool people I know, starting with driving down there alone to meet up with Kitty and her new beau and his gorgeous sister for dinner.
YIPPEEEEE! barbylon 2002
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Coleridge also distinguished sharply between the use of “Imagination” and “Fancy” by the poet, the latter being able only to copy and embellish past examples, the former, however, possessing an “esemplastic power” to see things as a whole and to bring new worlds to life, by creation and invention.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas FRANKLIN L. BAUMER 1968
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It may even be suggested that this unity is the only one close enough to act as the unifying power of the Imagination, the “esemplastic” power of which Coleridge theorized (Biographia Literaria, Ch. XIII).
ORGANICISM G. N. G. ORSINI 1968
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Nor is the metaphor necessary to provide the name for the principle, since it has been given other designations, such as “esemplastic” or “coadunative unity” by Cole - ridge, an “intensive manifold” by T.E. Hulme, or a
ORGANICISM G. N. G. ORSINI 1968
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It will be well, if already you have not too much of metaphysical disquisition in your work, though as the larger part of the disquisition is historical, it will doubtless be both interesting and instructive to many to whose unprepared minds your speculations on the esemplastic power would be utterly unintelligible.
Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
deliriumslibrarian commented on the word esemplastic
ST Coleridge, Biographica Litteraria.
June 14, 2007
yarb commented on the word esemplastic
And out of the fears grew wild hatreds, great unreasoning esemplastic hatreds...
- Malcolm Lowry, October Ferry to Gabriola
July 30, 2008