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 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

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

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

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