英语词汇“fifth essence”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†b. ‘Species of existent being’ (Johnson); an element. Chiefly in phrase, fifth essence, transl. of Latin quinta essentia: see quintessence n.The ‘fifth essence’ was a supposed substance distinct from the recognized four elements. What this fifth essence was, and where existing, was much disputed. Originally, it seems to have been the material of the starry heaven, as conceived by those who hesitated to identify it with ‘fire’. Among the alchemists, it was usually supposed to be latent in all bodies, and to be capable of being extracted from them by distillation or some more recondite process; many thought that alcohol was one of its forms. Others regarded the discovery of the ‘fifth essence’ as one of the unrealized aims of science, and attributed to the hypothetical substance all sorts of miracle-working properties. Hence fifth essence or quintessence was used loosely in the various senses ‘highly refined extract or essence’ and ‘universal remedy’.

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the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > [noun] > quintessence

quintessence1579

essence1582

fifth-essence1584

elixir1638

distillation1650

sublimate1657

alcohol1830

quintessential1899

1582 J. Hester tr. L. Fioravanti Compend. Rationall Secretes iii. liv The Quintaessence..is an essence aboue the fower elements.

a1626 F. Bacon Advt. Holy Warre in Wks. (1861) VII. 17 Here be four of you, as differing as the four elements..as for Eupolis..he may be the fifth essence.

1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) 20 An Universal Medicine, or fifth Essence.

1817 Ld. Byron Manfred i. i. 8 Ye, who do compass earth about, and dwell In subtler essence.

1837 W. Whewell tr. Aristotle in Hist. Inductive Sci. I. 54 There is some essence of body different from those of the four elements.

单词	fifth essence
释义	> as lemmas fifth essence †b. ‘Species of existent being’ (Johnson); an element. Chiefly in phrase, fifth essence, transl. of Latin quinta essentia: see quintessence n.The ‘fifth essence’ was a supposed substance distinct from the recognized four elements. What this fifth essence was, and where existing, was much disputed. Originally, it seems to have been the material of the starry heaven, as conceived by those who hesitated to identify it with ‘fire’. Among the alchemists, it was usually supposed to be latent in all bodies, and to be capable of being extracted from them by distillation or some more recondite process; many thought that alcohol was one of its forms. Others regarded the discovery of the ‘fifth essence’ as one of the unrealized aims of science, and attributed to the hypothetical substance all sorts of miracle-working properties. Hence fifth essence or quintessence was used loosely in the various senses ‘highly refined extract or essence’ and ‘universal remedy’. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > [noun] > quintessence quintessence1579 essence1582 fifth-essence1584 elixir1638 distillation1650 sublimate1657 alcohol1830 quintessential1899 1582 J. Hester tr. L. Fioravanti Compend. Rationall Secretes iii. liv The Quintaessence..is an essence aboue the fower elements. a1626 F. Bacon Advt. Holy Warre in Wks. (1861) VII. 17 Here be four of you, as differing as the four elements..as for Eupolis..he may be the fifth essence. 1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) 20 An Universal Medicine, or fifth Essence. 1817 Ld. Byron Manfred i. i. 8 Ye, who do compass earth about, and dwell In subtler essence. 1837 W. Whewell tr. Aristotle in Hist. Inductive Sci. I. 54 There is some essence of body different from those of the four elements. extracted from essencen. < as lemmas
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