† plasˈmation Obs.
[a. OF. plasmacion, or ad. Chr. L. plasmātiōn-em (Jerome), n. of action f. plasmāre: see plasmate.]
Moulding, forming, fashioning; creation.
| 1388 Pol. Poems (Rolls) I. 275 They bere a newe fascion, humeris in pectore tergo; Goddes plasmacion non illis complacet ergo. 1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 29 The iiij. ages of the world, from the plasmacion of Adam vn to the incension of the temple of the Iewes. 1568 Grafton Chron. I. 6 Neuerthelesse, the plasmation or creation of Adam is reconed among the generations. a 1608 Dee Relat. Spir. i. (1659) 371 The wisedome of the Father, in love, created and made man... But how? By Plasmation. For it is written, Let us make man. a 1677 Hale Prim. Orig. Man. iv. iii. 309 Not as if God Almighty used any Manual or Physical Plasmation of a Man, as the Statuary makes his Statue. |