Definition of "esemplasy" in Anglais

noun

1. The quality of being esemplastic or unifying.

   • 1852: 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. — Fraser's Magazine vol. 46 65
   • 2004: involved not just cerebration or raw IQ but actual sagacity or virtue or wisdom or as Coleridge would had it esemplasy — David Foster Wallace, Another Pioneer (Little, Brown and Company 2004, p. 120)