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

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

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

Est seems a contraction of esset, and ens of essens: = essens, essentis, essentia.

From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

"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

Quia nulla est essentia creata quæ non egeat aliquo accidente ad consummationem suæ perfectionis.

From The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus by Boudreaux, F. J.