{"id":10032,"date":"2023-12-26T19:51:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T19:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/uncategorized\/hip-glossary-essence\/"},"modified":"2023-12-26T19:51:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T19:51:03","slug":"hip-glossary-essence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/hip-glossary\/hip-glossary-essence\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip Glossary: Essence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Essence:<strong><br \/><\/strong><strong><\/p>\n<div><strong>Es&quot;sence<\/strong> (?), n. [F. essence, L. essentia, formed as if fr. a p. pr. of esse to be.] <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>1. The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the <em>nominal essence<\/em>. <\/div>\n<p><\/strong> The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the . <\/p>\n<div><strong><br \/>2.<\/strong> 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 <em>real essence<\/em>); 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. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the <strong>essence<\/strong> of this virtue [charity]. <em>Addison.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The <strong>essence<\/strong> of Addison&#8217;s humor is irony. <em>Courthope.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><strong>3.<\/strong> Constituent substance. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And uncompounded is their <strong>essence<\/strong> pure. <em>Milton.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><strong>4.<\/strong> A being; esp., a purely spiritual being. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As far as gods and heavenly <strong>essences<\/strong> Can perish. <em>Milton.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><strong>5.<\/strong> 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. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The . . . word <strong>essence<\/strong> . . . scarcely underwent a more complete transformation when from being the abstract of the verb to be,&quot; it came to denote something sufficiently concrete to be inclosed in a glass bottle. <em>J. S. Mill.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><strong>6.<\/strong> Perfume; odor; scent; or the volatile matter constituting perfume. <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nor let the <strong>essences<\/strong> exhale. <em>Pope.<\/p>\n<p>Source:websters1913dictionary<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essence: Es&quot;sence (?), n. [F. essence, L. essentia, formed as if fr. a p. pr. of esse to be.] 1. The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence. The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hip-glossary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}