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

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.

Et tamen res saltem tres sunt; una essentia est sulphur; una est sal; una est Mercurius.

From The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. by Boyle, Robert

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

Why should not have been rendered by essentia, I cannot conceive.

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