zooplastic

The cat may become the goddess Pasht, and the mouse, in the hand of a sculptured king, enforce his enduring words "[Greek: es eme tis horeôn eusebês estô]"; but the great mimetic instinct underlies all such purpose; and is zooplastic, -- life-shaping, -- alike in the reverent and the impious.

Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870

The cat may become the goddess Pasht, and the mouse, in the hand of the sculptured king, enforce his enduring words "[Greek: es eme tis oreôn eusebês estô];" but the great mimetic instinct underlies all such purpose; and is zooplastic, -- life-shaping, -- alike in the reverent and the impious.

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing