English
Etymology
From Greek �� �into� + �ν + �λα��ικ�� (from �λά��ειν �to mould�). Coined by w:Samuel Taylor Coleridge|Coleridge, probably after German ineinsbildung �forming into one�.
Pronunciation
IPA|/�s�m�plæstɪk/
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-æstɪk|-æstɪk
Adjective
en-adj
- unifying|Unifying; having the power to shape disparate things into a unified whole.
#*2003: he [...] developed a doctrine of the organic (�esemplastic�) imagination, over and against the passive and mechanical faculty of �fancy� � Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 405)
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