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

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

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

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

Nec in angelo, nec in aliqua creatura, virtus vel potentia operativa est idem quod sua essentia....

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter