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. (intransitive) To become assimilated
  2. (transitive) To form or constitute the essence or being of.
    • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book I, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 21:
      "That a number of Self-essentiated Deities plainly takes away the Being of the true God."
    • 1686, Robert Boyle, A Free Inquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature
      essentiate a body
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