[f. as prec. + Gr. πλάσ-ις molding + -Y.] (See quot.)

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1852.  Fraser’s 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 esemplasy—the power, that is, of infusing into the various parts of a subject an ever-present unity.

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