esemplastic

a. 有组织作用的,有融合作用的

发音

/ɛsɛmˈplæstɪk/

别名

esymplastic

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

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

    1893: all the verses when taken together … are deficient in harmony, and consequently there is little or no fusion. The esemplastic power of the writer's feeling was not strong enough, did not extend beyond the individual verse. — Hiram Corson, A Primer of English Verse (pp. 21–22)

    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)

词源

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

来源：wiktionary