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

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

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

The following are extracts from the “Christianæ Religionis Institutio,” of Faustus Socinus: Q.  Quid igitur de Dei natura, sive essentia, nosse omnino nos debere statuis?

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

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

"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