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ˌɛs ɛmˈplæs tɪk, -əm-es·em·plas·tic

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  1. esemplasticadjective

    Unifying; having the power to shape disparate things into a unified whole.

  2. Etymology: From Greek ἐς ‘into’ + ἕν + πλαστικός (from πλάσσειν ‘to mould’). Coined by Coleridge, probably after German ineinsbildung ‘forming into one’.

Wikipedia

  1. Esemplastic

    Esemplastic is a qualitative adjective which the English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge claimed to have invented. Despite its etymology from the Ancient Greek word πλάσσω for "to shape", the term was modeled on Schelling's philosophical term Ineinsbildung – the interweaving of opposites – and implies the process of an object being moulded into unity. The first recorded use of the word is in 1817 by Coleridge in his work, Biographia Literaria, in describing the esemplastic – the unifying – power of the imagination.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Esemplasticadjective

    shaped into one; tending to, or formative into, unity

  2. Etymology: [Gr. 'es into, to + "en one + plastiko`s molded, formed. See Plastic.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Esemplastic

    es-em-plas′tik, adj. shaping into one.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of esemplastic in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of esemplastic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5


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