esemplastic

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On the imagination, or esemplastic power

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  1. Molding, shaping, or fashioning into one. It was instantly felt that the Imagination, the esemplastic power, as Coleridge calls it, had produced a truer history … than the professed historian. A. Falconer.

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  • On the imagination, or esemplastic power —  Biographia Literaria
  • 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
 

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  1. from Gr.ἐς, εἰσ, σ2, into, + ἑν, neuter of εἴς (ἑν-), one (= English same), +πλαστικός, skilful in molding or shaping: see plastic, emplastic.
 

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