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Definition of Esemplastic
1. a. Shaped into one; tending to, or formative into, unity.
Definition of Esemplastic
1. Adjective. Unifying; having the power to shape disparate things into a unified whole. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Esemplastic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Esemplastic
Literary usage of Esemplastic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1894)
"On the imagination, or esemplastic power " O Adam ! one Almighty is, from whom
All things proceed, and up to him return If not depraved from good : created ..."
2. Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1847)
"A Chapter of requests and premonitions concerning the perusal or omission of the
chapter that follows 241 CHAP. XIII. On the Imagination, or esemplastic ..."
3. Shelburne Essays by Paul Elmer More (1909)
"was the esemplastic function of the imagination. ... '"esemplastic. The word is
not in Johnson, nor have I met with it elsewhere. ..."
4. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1844)
"The Imagination has been defined by Coleridge as the 'esemplastic Power'.
The word 'esemplastic', as he explains at the very beginning of Chapter X in tne ..."
5. The American Monthly Magazine (1837)
"As such, the Muse is source of all harmony and of its pleasures; her's is the
nature esemplastic, and her's the power, imparted to mortals different from ..."
6. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1870)
"It seems this great work contains a number of treatises, one of which is, 'On
the Imagination,or esemplastic Faculty.' Now, chapter xii. of the ' Biographia ..."
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