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Quintessence   /kwɪntˈɛsəns/   Listen
noun
Quintessence  n.  
1.
The fifth or last and highest essence or power in a natural body. See Ferment oils, under Ferment. (Obs.) Note: The ancient Greeks recognized four elements, fire, air, water, and earth. The Pythagoreans added a fifth and called it nether, the fifth essence, which they said flew upward at creation and out of it the stars were made. The alchemists sometimes considered alcohol, or the ferment oils, as the fifth essence.
2.
Hence: An extract from anything, containing its rarest virtue, or most subtle and essential constituent in a small quantity; pure or concentrated essence. "Let there be light, said God; and forthwith light Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, Sprung from the deep."
3.
The most characteristic form or most perfect example of some type of object.


verb
Quintessence  v. t.  To distil or extract as a quintessence; to reduce to a quintessence. (R.) "Truth quintessenced and raised to the highest power."





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"Quintessence" Quotes from Famous Books



... Hegel Krochmal admits that the resultants from the historical development of a people form the quintessence of its existence. [Footnote: See chapters IX, XVI, and others; also M. Bernfeld, Da'at Elohim ("The Knowledge of God"); and M. Landau, Die Bibel und der Hegelianismus (Dissertation).] But what he does not believe ...
— The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) • Nahum Slouschz
... as your institutions are founded on reason and nature, judge," I continued, "that you would be more disposed ta cultivate this member than to mutilate it; and this the more especially, as I understand all monikins believe it to be the very quintessence ...
— The Monikins • J. Fenimore Cooper
... of the things that makes up the law of compensation. The law of compensation itself is the quintessence of ...
— Dollars and Sense • Col. Wm. C. Hunter
... 101 of whose propositions were formally condemned by Pope Clement XI in his famous Constitution "Unigenitus."(225) The Jansenistic teachings of the Council of Pistoia were censured by Pius VI, A. D. 1794, in his Bull "Auctorem fidei." The quintessence of this heretical system is embodied in the proposition that whatever a man does in the state of mortal sin is necessarily sinful for the reason that he is not in the state of grace (status caritatis). Baius(226) ...
— Grace, Actual and Habitual • Joseph Pohle
... before her and kissed her dress and her hands. "I love you boundlessly," he said with panting breath; "you are to me the quintessence of all happiness, virtue, and beauty. I shall love you to the last hour ...
— LOUISA OF PRUSSIA AND HER TIMES • Louise Muhlbach


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