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essentiate (third-person singular simple present essentiates, present participle essentiating, simple past and past participle essentiated)
- (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 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: […]
- (intransitive) To become assimilated.