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

The problem of matter and form in the De ente et essentia of Thomas Aquinas. © 16Feb40; A136937.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1967 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Si potentiae animae non sunt ipsa essentia animae, sequitur quod sint accidentia in aliquo novem generum contenta.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

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.

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

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