[f. as prec. + Gr. πλάσ-ις molding + -Y.] (See quot.)
1852. Frasers Mag., XLVI. 65. Neither of them possessed that gift, which Schelling endeavoured to express by the term Eseinsbildung [sic; read ineinsbildung], and Coleridge by the term esemplasythe power, that is, of infusing into the various parts of a subject an ever-present unity.