essentia
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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
Haec divina motio in creatura recepta a Thomistis physica appellatur, ... quia ex propria essentia et ab intrinseco est efficax, independenter a quocumque creato consensu.”713.Cfr.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur
"In homine," said Flacius, "et mansit aliquid, et tamen quod optimum in ratione et essentia fuit, nempe imago Dei, non tantum evanuit, sed etiam in contrarium, nempe in imaginem diaboli, commutatum est."
From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Bente, F. (Friedrich)
Why should not have been rendered by essentia, I cannot conceive.
From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Et tamen res saltem tres sunt; una essentia est sulphur; una est sal; una est Mercurius.
