ESSENCE
\ˈɛsəns], \ˈɛsəns], \ˈɛ_s_ə_n_s]\
Definitions of ESSENCE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"
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a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor
By Princeton University
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the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"
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a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real essence); the real being, divested of all logical accidents; that quality which constitutes or marks the true nature of anything; distinctive character; hence, virtue or quality of a thing, separated from its grosser parts.
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Constituent substance.
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A being; esp., a purely spiritual being.
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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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Perfume; odor; scent; or the volatile matter constituting perfume.
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To perfume; to scent.
By Oddity Software
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The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real essence); the real being, divested of all logical accidents; that quality which constitutes or marks the true nature of anything; distinctive character; hence, virtue or quality of a thing, separated from its grosser parts.
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Constituent substance.
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A being; esp., a purely spiritual being.
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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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Perfume; odor; scent; or the volatile matter constituting perfume.
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To perfume; to scent.
By Noah Webster.
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To perfume; to scent.
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That which constitutes the distinctive nature of a thing; that which makes a thing to be what it is; existence; a being; species of being; the extracted virtues of a plant or drug; the proper substance of anything; the solution of an essential oil in alcohol; a perfume, or the volatile matter constituting perfume.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The concentrated extract of any substance; as, essence of peppermint; perfume; that which is the real character of a thing.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. The true characteristic or substance of a body. 2. An element. 3. A fluidextract. 4. An alcoholic solution, or spirit, of the volatile oil of a plant; also an artificial product of similar odor and taste.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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The inner distinctive nature of anything: the qualities which make any object what it is: a being: the extracted virtues of any drug: the solution in spirits of wine of a volatile or essential oil: a perfume.
By Daniel Lyons
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Necessary qualities; characteristic principle; perfumed alcohol.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The concentrated preparation of any substance; a perfume; the virtues or qualities of a thing separated from its grosser matter; that which constitutes the particular nature of a being or substance; existence; being.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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By some, used synonymously with volatile oil; by others, with simple tincture. The oil of peppermint is the oil obtained by distillation; the essence, the oil diluted with spirit. See Tinctura olei menthae.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Of the Br. Ph., a solution of a volatile oil in rectified spirit; of the Fr. Cod., a volatile vegetable oil; of the other pharmacopeias, an alcoholic solution of a volatile oil. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Latin] Existence; subsistence; formal cause of being; substance; peculiar nature or quality;—constituent part; necessary element;—a being; an existent person;—chief or predominant quality in any substance; volatile oil extracted from a substance;—perfume; odour; scent.
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Existence, the quality of being; constituent substance; the cause of existence; the very nature of any being; in medicine, the chief properties or virtues of any simple, or composition collected in a narrow compass; perfume, odour, scent.
By Thomas Sheridan
