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

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

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

"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

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