essentia

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The strongest of them are called essential oils, after the medieval alchemist’s notion of quinta essentia, a fifth essence of heavenly origin — a life force — to be extracted from terrestrial materials.

From New York Times • May 10, 2021

R.  De Christi essentia ita statuo, illum esse hominem. 

From Christian Sects in the Nineteenth Century by Cornwallis, Caroline Frances

"Substantiae nomen significat essentiam cui competit sic esse, id est per se esse; quod tamen esse non est ipsa ejus essentia."

From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Paradise by Norton, Charles Eliot

Our eternal life remains "perpetuo in divina essentia sine discretione," but continually flows out "per æternam Verbi generationem."

From Christian Mysticism by Inge, William Ralph

Haec autem reluctantia subjectiva mentitur, ut plurimum, repugnantiam aliquam objectivam, et incautos facile fallit, limitibus, quibus mens humana circumscribitur, pro iis habitis, quibus ipsa rerum essentia continetur.

From Biographia Literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor