Definition of essence

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Essence (n.) The predominant qualities or virtues of a plant or drug, extracted and refined from grosser matter; or, more strictly, the solution in spirits of wine of a volatile or essential oil; as, the essence of mint, and the like..

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Marrow :: Marrow (n.) The essence; the best part.
Godhood :: Godhood (n.) Divine nature or essence; deity; godhead.
Quintessential :: Quintessential (a.) Of the nature of a quintessence; purest.
Quintessence :: Quintessence (n.) The fifth or last and highest essence or power in a natural body. See Ferment oils, under Ferment..
Extraction :: Extraction (n.) That which is extracted; extract; essence.
Substance :: Substance (n.) That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real, in distinction from that which is apparent; the abiding part of any existence, in distinction from any accident; that which constitutes anything what it is; real or existing essence..
Cream :: Cream (n.) The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence; as, the cream of a jest or story; the cream of a collection of books or pictures..
Essence :: Essence (v. t.) To perfume; to scent.
Essence :: Essence (n.) The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence..
Godhead :: Godhead (n.) Godship; deity; divinity; divine nature or essence; godhood.
Hypostasis :: Hypostasis (n.) Substance; subsistence; essence; person; personality; -- used by the early theologians to denote any one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit..
Essentiate :: Essentiate (v. t.) To form or constitute the essence or being of.
Inessential :: Inessential (a.) Having no essence or being.
Core :: Core (n.) The most important part of a thing; the essence; as, the core of a subject..
Essential :: Essential (a.) Containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil..
Stuff :: Stuff (v. t.) The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence.
Formality :: Formality (n.) The quality which makes a thing what it is; essence.
Essentiate :: Essentiate (v. i.) To become assimilated; to be changed into the essence.
Entity :: Entity (n.) A real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or in fact; being; essence; existence..
Quintessence :: Quintessence (v. t.) To distil or extract as a quintessence; to reduce to a quintessence.
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