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Esemplastic is the qualitative adjective of which the English Romantic poet S. T. Coleridge claimed to have invented. Despite its Greek etymology, the term was modeled on Schelling's Ineinsbildung and implies the process of an object being moulded into unity. First recorded use of the word is in 1817 by Coleridge in his work, Biographia Literaria, in describing the esemplastic—the unifying—power of the imagination.