Word of the Day: esemplastic (es-em-PLAS-tik) [adjective]:
Having the capability of moulding diverse ideas or things into unity.
[From Greek es- (into) + en, neuter of eis (one) + plastic. Coined by poet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), apparently after German Ineinsbildung
(forming into one)].
“Here is how Coleridge used the term in his 1817 Biographia Literaria or
Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions. Vol. I, Chapter 13:”
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 all
Such to perfection, one first nature all
Indued with various forms, various degrees.
