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esemplastic

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esemplastic [ˌɛsɛmˈplæstɪk]
adj
Literature making into one; unifying
[C19 (first used by Samuel Taylor Coleridge): from Greek es, eis into + em, from hen, neuter of heis one + -plastic]


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Lewis famously deprecated the game of source-hunting, and what he wrote about Spenser applies to him also: "His mind was so concoctive and esemplastic that the fruits of his reading met and mingled and transformed one another till they became unrecognizable--as happens on the 'road to Xanadu'" (English Literature, 355).
 
 
 
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