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单词 esemplastic
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Definition of esemplastic in English:

esemplastic

adjective ˌɛsɛmˈplastɪkˌesemˈplastik
rare
  • Moulding into one; unifying.

    〈罕〉融成一体的;融合的

    Coleridge defines imagination as the esemplastic power
    Example sentencesExamples
    • ‘Picturesque associationism and the ‘esemplastic’ romantic imagination here replace the empirical obsession of eighteenth-century travel writing’.
    • There are other novelists who seem to be able to remake themselves drastically from one novel to the next, and can find any number of grooves for their ‘esemplastic’ (Coleridge's wonderful word) genius.

Derivatives

  • esemplastically

  • adverb
    rare
    • Wordsworth, looking at the same tree root, and connecting it esemplastically with the One, the Whole, the ‘Wisdom and spirit of the Universe‘, would have felt joy rather than nausea.

Origin

Early 19th century: from Greek es 'into' + hen (neuter of heis 'one') + -ic; formed irregularly by Coleridge, probably suggested by German Ineinsbildung, in the same sense.

Definition of esemplastic in US English:

esemplastic

adjectiveˌesemˈplastik
rare
  • Molding into one; unifying.

    〈罕〉融成一体的;融合的

    Coleridge defines imagination as the esemplastic power
    Example sentencesExamples
    • ‘Picturesque associationism and the ‘esemplastic’ romantic imagination here replace the empirical obsession of eighteenth-century travel writing’.
    • There are other novelists who seem to be able to remake themselves drastically from one novel to the next, and can find any number of grooves for their ‘esemplastic’ (Coleridge's wonderful word) genius.

Origin

Early 19th century: from Greek es ‘into’ + hen (neuter of heis ‘one’) + -ic; formed irregularly by Coleridge, probably suggested by German Ineinsbildung, in the same sense.

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