plasticallyadv.

a1719 Def. Nat. & Revealed Relig. (1739) I. 369 Those that hold a Soul or Life in Matter, plastically diffused through all Parts of the Universe..cannot deny but this power is invisible.

1835 Southern Literary Messenger Dec. 43/2 Pictorially, or graphically, or as a German would say plastically.

1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. 42 The command over a language, the power of adapting it plastically to the expression of your own thoughts, is almost exclusively a gift of nature.

1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. vii. 532 A slow fall in temperature apparently permits the ice to flow plastically over the lake surface without cracking.

1992 World (BBC) Apr. 40/3 Potty-putty is the stuff sold in toy shops that deforms plastically if handled gently, but shatters if thrown on the ground.

2002 Eastern Econ. Jrnl. (Nexis) 28 301 The basic concept of the neural architectures can be extended to human society, as if it were just one great brain that plastically organizes its own knowledge.