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The essence; the best part. It takes from our achievements . . . The pith and marrow of our attribute. Shak.

In its essence; substantially. An ill intention is certainly sufficient to spoil . . . an act in itself materially good. South.

ng; the constituent elements of conception; that into which a notion may be analyzed; the essence; the pith; the embodiment. He is the matter of virtue. B. Jonson.

Marrow; pith; hence, essence. [Obs.] Milton.

The passage of the soul, as an immortal essence, at the death of the animal body it had inhabited, into another living body, whether of a brute or a human being; transmigration of souls. Sir T. Browne.

e or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality. Glanvill.

Having but one and the same nature or essence.

n of nitric acid on benzene, and called from its odor imitation oil of bitter almonds, or essence of mirbane. It is used in perfumery, and is manufactured in large quantities in the preparation of aniline. Fornerly called also nitrobenzol.

or not even. Take but one from three, and you not only destroy the oddness, but also the essence of that number. Fotherby.

all-pervading or all-comprehensive; hence, the Deity. [R.] Omniety formed nullity into an essence. Sir T. Browne.

H. Spenser. All true literature, all genuine poetry, is the direct outcome, the condensed essence, of actual life and thougth. J. C. Shairp.

A volatile oil (oil of peppermint) distilled from the fresh herb; also, a well-known essence or spirit (essence of peppermint) obtained from it.

That of which the essence is the absence of something. Blackness and darkness are indeed but privatives. Bacon.

Constituting, or containing, the essence of a thing; quidditative.

The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a thing; that which answers the question, Quid est or, What is it " The degree of nullity and quiddity." Bacon. The quiddity or characteristic difference of poetry as distinguished from prose. De Quincey.

Of the nature of a quintessence; purest. "Quintessential extract of mediocrity." G. Eliot.

One of the two great systems of religious belief in Japan. Its essence is ancestor worship, and sacrifice to dead heroes. [Written also Sintu, and Sintuism.]

ther farinaceous substance, beaten till very light, and flavored with fruits, liquors, or essence.

ure the stuff and spill the whole workmanship. Puttenham. Spill not the morning, the quintessence of day, in recreations. Fuller.

orm of Pantheism taught by Benedict Spinoza, that there is but one substance, or infinite essence, in the universe, of which the so-called material and spiritual beings and phenomena are only modes, and that one this one substance is God. [Written also Spinosism.]