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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
essentiate en · VERB
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(transitive) To constitute or form the being or essence of (someone or something).
[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: […]
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:That a number of Self-essentiated Deities plainly takes away the Being of the true God.
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:
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(intransitive) To become assimilated.
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