essentiate

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

[edit]

Pronunciation

[edit]

Verb

[edit]

essentiate (third-person singular simple present essentiates, present participle essentiating, simple past and past participle essentiated)

  1. (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: []
  2. (intransitive) To become assimilated.