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
Unde essentia angeli non est ejus potentia intellectiva, nec alicujus creati essentia est ejus operativa potentia.”—ibid., q.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter
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
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
Et tamen res saltem tres sunt; una essentia est sulphur; una est sal; una est Mercurius.
