essentiate

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈsɛnʃi.eɪt/

Verb

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.