essentiate
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editessentiate (third-person singular simple present essentiates, present participle essentiating, simple past and past participle essentiated)
- (transitive) To constitute or form the being or essence of (someone or something).
- 1653, Henry More, An Antidote against Atheisme, or An Appeal to the Natural Faculties of the Minde of Man, whether There Be Not a God, London: […] Roger Daniel, […], →OCLC:
- That a number of Self-essentiated Deities plainly takes away the Being of the true God.
- 1686 (indicated as 1685–1686), Robert Boyle, “A Free Inquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature: […]”, in The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle. […], volume IV, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], published 1744, →OCLC, section VII, page 406, column 1:
- [I]f Mr. [René] Des Cartes’s notion be admitted, it vvill be irrational to admit a vacuum, ſince any ſpace, that is pretended to be empty, muſt be acknovvledged to have the three dimenſions, and conſequently all, that is neceſſary to essentiate a body: […]
- (intransitive) To become assimilated.