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f objects, what it is. Majestic as the voice sometimes became, there was forever in it an essential character of plaintiveness. Hawthorne.

The quality of being essential; the essential part. Jer. Taylor.

In an essential manner or degree; in an indispensable degree; really; as, essentially different.

Essentiality. Ld. Digby.

Partaking of the same essence. -- Co`es*sen"tial*ly, adv. We bless and magnify that coessential Spirit, eternally proceeding from both [The Father and the Son]. Hooker.

Participation of the same essence. Johnson.

Having no essence or being. H. Brooke. The womb of inessential Naught. Shelley.

Not essential.

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

Essential above others, or above the constitution of a thing. J. Ellis.

Not essential; not of prime importance; not indispensable; unimportant. Addison.

In an unessential manner.

parable particle ge-, cognate with OHG. ga-, gi-, Goth. ga-), which, as a prefix, made no essential addition to the meaning, as in aware. (5) French à (L. ad to), as in abase, achieve. (6) L. a, ab, abs, from, as in avert. (7) Greek insep. prefix a without, or privative, not, as in abyss, atheist; akin to E. un-.…

That which comprises or concentrates in itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief. An abstract of every treatise he had read. Watts. Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heav…

A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.

Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play. Accidental chords (Mus.), those which contain one or more tones foreign to their proper harmony. -- Accidental colors (Opt.), colors depending on the hypersensibility of the retina of the eye for complementary colors. They are purely subj…

accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.

ally as the produce of money lent. "Interest accrues to principal." Abbott. The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press. Junius.

testants who, with Melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical. Murdock.

at my death were adjunct to my act. Shak. Adjunct notes (Mus.), short notes between those essential to the harmony; auxiliary notes; passing notes.