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ˈproplasm rare.
[ad. L. proplasma (Plin.), a. Gr. πρόπλασµα a pattern, model, f. προπλάσσειν to mould or form before: see pro-2 and plasm.]
A mould, a matrix.
1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth iv. 182 Those Shells, by that means, serving as Proplasmes, or Moulds, to the Matter which so filled them. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Proplasm, the same with a Mould in which any Metal or soft Matter, which afterwards will harden, is cast. 18..Jrnl. of Science No. 124. 242 (Cent. Dict.) We gather that the mysterious Spirit is merely the noumenon or proplasm of physical and psychical phenomena. |