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Dictionary » E » Essence EssenceEssence 1. The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence. 2. The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real essence); the real being, divested of all logical accidents; that quality which constitutes or marks the true nature of anything; distinctive character; hence, virtue or quality of a thing, separated from its grosser parts. The laws are at present, both in form and essence, the greatest curse that society labors under. (Landor) Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence of this virtue [charity] (Addison) The essence of Addison's humor is irony. (Courthope) 3. Constituent substance. And uncompounded is their essence pure. (Milton) 4. A being; especially, a purely spiritual being. As far as gods and heavenly essences Can perish. (Milton) He had been indulging in fanciful speculations on spiritual essences, until . . . He had and ideal world of his own around him. (W. Irving) 5. The predominant qualities or virtues of a plant or drug, extracted and refined from grosser matter; or, more strictly, the solution in spirits of wine of a volatile or essential oil; as, the essence of mint, and the like. The . . . Word essence . . . Scarcely underwent a more complete transformation when from being the abstract of the verb to be, it came to denote something sufficiently concrete to be inclosed in a glass bottle. (j. S. Mill) 6. Perfume; odour; scent; or the volatile matter constituting perfume. Nor let the essences exhale. (Pope) Origin: f. Essence, L. Essentia, formed as if fr. A p. Pr. Of esse to be. See Is, and cf. Entity. ![]()
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Results from our forumRe: The general theory of origin of life... greatest philosophical concept, which was created by mankind. From it originate almost all religions, and the concepts of creationism. Since the essence of the deployment of the world does not change from the speed with which it occurs, the period for the birth and spread of life has no value. ...
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Creationism is not scientific... This is why creationism is outside of empirical science. 5. A scientific hypothesis, in addition to being testable, must actually be tested. The essence of science is its self-correcting mechanism, in which hypotheses are constantly revised and refined to comply with new evidence. Creationism ...
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Glycolysis - reductive/oxidative?Is glycolysis a reductive or oxidative process in its chemical essence? Would you mind explaining why?
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Re: Idea to determine order of assembly of spliceosome... much about the spliceosome as we actually do, and from there proceed to map its function and so on. I should have written this more clearly. In essence, that means I "don't know" the binding partners, only that there is some kind of complex performing the splicing. I want to know how ...
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Which came first the DNA, RNA or protein... above two statements are basis for the following statement, may it also soon pass the SN “peer review”… ?! USA Science? Re-Comprehend Origins And Essence • Higgs Particle? Dark Energy/Matter? Epigenetics? All YOK! • Earth-life is just another, self-replicating, mass format. • All mass formats ...
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