quintessencen.

Brit.

/kwɪnˈtɛsns/, U.S.

/kwɪnˈtɛs(ə)ns/

Forms:

α. late Middle English quinte essencie, late Middle English quyntencense, late Middle English quyntessense, late Middle English 1600s quyntessence, late Middle English–1500s quynte essence, late Middle English–1600s quinte essence, late Middle English– quintessence, 1500s quintecense, 1500s quinticense, 1500s–1600s quintesence, 1500s–1600s quintessens, 1500s–1600s qvintessence, 1500s–1700s quintescense, 1500s–1700s quintiscence, 1500s–1800s quintescence, 1600s quintassence, 1600s quintescens, 1600s quintessencie, 1600s quintessense, 1600s quint'ssence; Scottish pre-1700 quentassence, pre-1700 quentassens, pre-1700 quintacens, pre-1700 quintascence, pre-1700 quintassence, pre-1700 quintessance, pre-1700 quintessenst, pre-1700 quintiscence, pre-1700 quintiscens, pre-1700 quyntacence, pre-1700 quynte sens, pre-1700 quyntessens, pre-1700 1700s– quintessence.

β. late Middle English quinta essencia, late Middle English quintasencia, late Middle English quynta essens, 1500s quintaessence, 1500s–1600s quinta essentia; Scottish pre-1700 quinta essencia.

Also (in late Middle English) represented by the abbreviation 5 essencie.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French quinte essence, quintessence; Latin quinta essentia.

Etymology: Partly (in α. forms) < Middle French quinte essence fifth essence, ether (end of the 13th cent. in Old French), quintessence the most perfect or precious part of something (1534; French quintessence ; < quinte (femine adjective) fifth (see quint n.¹) + essence essence n.), and partly (in β. forms) < its model post-classical Latin quinta essentia fifth essence (from 12th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin quīnta , feminine of quīntus fifth (see quint n.¹) + essentia essence n., after Hellenistic Greek πέμπτη οὐσία (1st cent., with reference to Aristotle, who refers to the substance as ancient Greek αἰθήρ : see ether n.). Compare post-classical Latin quintessentia (1620 in a British source). Compare fifth-essence n. at fifth adj. and n. Compounds 1, fifth essency at essency n.Metrical examples suggest that in the 16th–early 19th centuries the stress was usually on the first and third syllables (compare the form quint'ssence in F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia (1629) II. 58), but stress on the second syllable is already occasionally found at the end of the 16th cent. and becomes more common in the second half of the 18th cent.; both stress patterns appear in Milton Paradise Lost (1667) iii. 716 and vii. 244, respectively. In 18th-cent. dictionaries the stress is marked variously on the first and the second syllable; from the 19th cent. stress is more commonly marked on the second syllable, but Worcester (1846) gives stress on the third syllable as an alternative. The word was reintroduced into modern cosmology by P. J. Steinhardt (compare quots. 1998¹ at sense 1b and 2001 at sense 1b).

a. In classical and medieval philosophy: a fifth essence existing in addition to the four elements, supposed to be the substance of which the celestial bodies were composed and to be latent in all things; (Alchemy) this essence, supposed to be able to be extracted by distillation or other procedures.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > alchemy > other alchemical substances or theories > [noun] > fifth essence

quintessencec1460

heavena1475

fifth substance1561

c1460 (?c1435) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 667 Aurum potabile..In quynt-essense [v.r. quyntencense] best restauracioun.

a1475 Bk. Quinte Essence (1889) 5 Þat erþely watir wole first come out..departinge bitwixe it, and þe quinte essence, þat is, mannys heuene sublymed.

a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Abbot of Tungland in Poems (1998) I. 57 Me thocht seir fassonis he assailȝeit To mak the quintessance and failȝeit.

1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation i. iv. sig. A v^v The quint essence or fyfte substaunce, is a body of it selfe.

1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 256 This cannot bee done without proiection of the Elixar or Quintescense vpon mettalls.

1660 J. Harding tr. Paracelsus Archidoxis i. 35 The Quintessence therefore, is a certain matter Corporally extracted out of all things, which Nature hath produced.

1701 tr. J. Le Clerc Lives Primitive Fathers 309 That the Soul was of the same Nature with Heaven, or of the Quint-Essence which Heaven is made of.

1724 I. Watts Logick 16 They supposed the heavens to be a quintessence, or a fifth sort of body.

1812 Edinb. Rev. 20 171 Which [ether] gave occasion to the famous quinta essentia, or quintessence of the schoolmen.

1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 18 The young deities discussed..Orb, quintessence, and sunbeams.

1884 Mind 9 252 There is no fifth element or ‘quintessence’ in Bruno's system.

1919 Science 3 Jan. 1/2 Aristotle's elements—earth, air, fire, water and the quintessence, derived perhaps from yet more ancient philosophy—were not plentiful enough to account for all the manifold phenomena of nature.

1988 K. Logan Paganism & Occult 132 To others, it relates to the ‘quintessence’, the luminous and invisible fifth element that binds together the normal four elements of earth, air, fire and water.

b. Astronomy. A form of dark energy that varies in time and space and has negative pressure, proposed to account for the apparent accelerating expansion of the universe as suggested by observations of some distant supernovae.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > energy or power of doing work > [noun] > specific types of energy

internal energy1654

positive energy1807

chemical energy1809

energy1852

potential energy1853

atomic energy1854

latent energy1854

static energy1869

free energy1884

rest energy1925

nuclear energy1958

radial energy1959

tangential energy1959

geothermal1960

dark energy1998

quintessence1998

1989 L. M. Kraus Fifth Essence ix. 217 The prime particle physics candidates for dark matter are ‘honest’ ones—at least as honest as Anaximander's ‘indefinite’ or Aristotle's ‘quintessence’.]

1998 P. J. Steinhardt & R. R. Caldwell in Astron. Soc. Pacific Conf. Ser. 151 14 In this lecture, we introduce the possibility that the missing energy consists of ‘quintessence’: a time-dependent and spatially inhomogeneous component with negative pressure. The negative pressure means that this component has an equation-of-state different from that of baryons, neutrinos, dark matter, or radiation. We refer to this fifth component as ‘quintessence’.

1998 Sci. Amer. Sept. 13/2 The QMAP results corroborate the prevailing theory of inflation—with the twist that the universe is only one third matter (both ordinary and dark) and two thirds ‘quintessence’, a bizarre form of energy, possibly inherent in empty space.

1999 Nature 4 Mar. 25/2 Quintessence began as Einstein's cosmological constant, Λ. It has negative gravitational mass: its gravity pushes things apart.

2001 Sci. Amer. Jan. 43/1 Steinhard [sic] was one of the originators of the theory of inflation... He reintroduced the term ‘quintessence’ after his youngest son Will and daughter Cindy picked it out from several alternatives.

2. The essence which characterizes, and can be extracted from, any substance (see essence n. 9a); a highly refined essence or extract, spec. (Chemistry) an alcoholic solution obtained by infusion at a gentle heat. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > chemistry > chemical substances > [noun] > essence or essential principle

quintessencea1475

alcohol1590

tincture1612

potestas1683

exaltation1686

a1475 Bk. Quinte Essence (1889) 10 Þis oyle, þat is to seie, quinta essencia of gold, hath þe mooste swetnes and vertu to a-swage and putte awei þe ache of woundis... Also in þe same maner ȝe may drawe out of siluer, quinte essencie.

a1500 in D. W. Singer Catal. Lat. & Vernacular Alchemical MSS (1928) I. 276 Here I be~gyne the grett and royall work of the 5a. sense of Mercurye, acordynge the worke of master Arnold..here after folowith the worke of the quynta essens of commen Marcury.

1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health (title) The newe jewell of health,..treating very amplye of all dystillations of waters, of oyles, balmes, quintessences, etc.

1607 R. Pricket Ld. Coke his Speech & Charge H^v To vnderstand the nature, quintessence, & spirit of the Minerals.

1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 372 The curiosity that men use in weighing gold, or precious quintessences for medicine.

1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. lxxv. 671 Quintessence of Vipers..is of wonderful virtue for purifying the blood, &c.

1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 131. ⁋9 I looked upon that sooty Drug..as the Quintessence of English Bourdeaux.

1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. II. 327 Alcohol dissolves resins and resinous gums: these solutions are called Tinctures, Elixirs, Quintessences, &c.

1850 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1872) 3rd Ser. i. 3 In the drop of venom..there is concentrated the quintessence of a poison.

1926 E. A. Powell In Barbary iii. 34 The perfumes sold here, remember, are not the ordinary scents of commerce,..but concentrated quintessences, the merest drop of which upon a handkerchief or glove or sleeve confers a fragrance which will last for days.

1992 W. H. Brock Fontana Hist. Chem. i. 26 John's advocation of the quintessence was extremely important since it encouraged pharmacists to try and extract other quintessences from herbs and minerals, and thus to usher in the age of iatrochemistry in the sixteenth century.

3. figurative.

a. The most essential part or feature of some non-material thing; the purest or most perfect form or manifestation of some quality, idea, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [noun] > most perfect form or manifestation

quintessence1579

fifth-essence1584

sublimity1642

sublime1727

refinement1806

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

quintessence1579

essence1582

fifth-essence1584

elixir1638

distillation1650

sublimate1657

alcohol1830

quintessential1899

1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. B.6 Some Italian Quintessence of mischiefe meante to be compassed against the church of Christ.

1590 R. Hitchcock tr. F. Sansovino Quintesence of Wit Ep. Ded. sig. A2 A naturall quintesence of knowledge.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 309 What a peece of worke is a man..: the beautie of the world; the paragon of Annimales; and yet to me, what is this Quintessence of dust.

1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. E8 Certayne artificiall rocks, most curiously contriued by the very quintessence of arte.

1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης vi. 53 The Law of England, which Lawyers say is the quintessence of reason.

1707 E. Ward London Terræ-filius No. 2. 35 She's the very Quintescence of ill-Manners.

1759 R. Jackson Hist. Rev. Pennsylvania 271 The last Period of the Governor's Message was the very Quintessence of Invective.

1850 Athenæum 23 Feb. 212/2 This seems to us the very quintessence of penny wisdom and pound folly in management.

1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. ix. xxxvii. 181 This passage contains the very quintessence of Pauline theology.

1891 G. B. Shaw (title) The quintessence of Ibsenism.

1940 H. G. Wells Babes in Darkling Wood ii. iii. 198 They thought strikes and hunger marches the quintessence of politics and Soviet Russia heaven on earth.

1973 D. Aaron Unwritten War vii. 118 Charleston, the hatchery of rebellion and quintessence of Southernness.

1994 D. Fallowell 20th Cent. Char. 14 He sold advertising space. I thought it was the worst thing. It's the quintessence of hucksterism.

b. The most typical example of a category or class; the most perfect embodiment of a certain type of person or thing.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [noun] > standard or type of

idea1586

quintessence1590

top1593

ideal1796

ideal case1813

beau-ideal1820

1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall 8 A Quintessence..of all the picked yoouth.

1610 Histrio-mastix ii. 161 Heere's the very quintessence of Duckes.

1622 J. Taylor Sir Gregory Nonsence sig. A8^v When strait I might descry, The Quintescence of Grubstreet, well distild Through Cripplegate.

1758 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 503 A priest (called ‘the Bishop of Down’), the quintessence of an Irish brogueneer.

1823 W. Scott Let. Aug. (1935) VIII. 64 You have escaped the quintessence of bores.

1845 G. P. R. James Arrah Neil I. ii. 42 He was the quintessence of an ordinary-minded man.

1893 R. F. Burton tr. Il Pentamerone I. 178 The fox, never dreaming that the other was a quintessence of foxery, found a woman more a fox than herself.

1970 T. Southern Blue Movie ii. xii. 117 Du Couvier, the facial magician, had transfigured them into the quintessence of fifteen-year-old schoolgirls.

1991 C. Lycett Green Perfect Eng. Country House (BNC) 27 If the Ley is the quintessence of Herefordshire Elizabethan, then Restrop is the quintessence of north Wiltshire Elizabethan.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	quintessence
释义	quintessencen. Brit. /kwɪnˈtɛsns/, U.S. /kwɪnˈtɛs(ə)ns/ Forms: α. late Middle English quinte essencie, late Middle English quyntencense, late Middle English quyntessense, late Middle English 1600s quyntessence, late Middle English–1500s quynte essence, late Middle English–1600s quinte essence, late Middle English– quintessence, 1500s quintecense, 1500s quinticense, 1500s–1600s quintesence, 1500s–1600s quintessens, 1500s–1600s qvintessence, 1500s–1700s quintescense, 1500s–1700s quintiscence, 1500s–1800s quintescence, 1600s quintassence, 1600s quintescens, 1600s quintessencie, 1600s quintessense, 1600s quint'ssence; Scottish pre-1700 quentassence, pre-1700 quentassens, pre-1700 quintacens, pre-1700 quintascence, pre-1700 quintassence, pre-1700 quintessance, pre-1700 quintessenst, pre-1700 quintiscence, pre-1700 quintiscens, pre-1700 quyntacence, pre-1700 quynte sens, pre-1700 quyntessens, pre-1700 1700s– quintessence. β. late Middle English quinta essencia, late Middle English quintasencia, late Middle English quynta essens, 1500s quintaessence, 1500s–1600s quinta essentia; Scottish pre-1700 quinta essencia. Also (in late Middle English) represented by the abbreviation 5 essencie. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French quinte essence, quintessence; Latin quinta essentia. Etymology: Partly (in α. forms) < Middle French quinte essence fifth essence, ether (end of the 13th cent. in Old French), quintessence the most perfect or precious part of something (1534; French quintessence ; < quinte (femine adjective) fifth (see quint n.¹) + essence essence n.), and partly (in β. forms) < its model post-classical Latin quinta essentia fifth essence (from 12th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin quīnta , feminine of quīntus fifth (see quint n.¹) + essentia essence n., after Hellenistic Greek πέμπτη οὐσία (1st cent., with reference to Aristotle, who refers to the substance as ancient Greek αἰθήρ : see ether n.). Compare post-classical Latin quintessentia (1620 in a British source). Compare fifth-essence n. at fifth adj. and n. Compounds 1, fifth essency at essency n.Metrical examples suggest that in the 16th–early 19th centuries the stress was usually on the first and third syllables (compare the form quint'ssence in F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia (1629) II. 58), but stress on the second syllable is already occasionally found at the end of the 16th cent. and becomes more common in the second half of the 18th cent.; both stress patterns appear in Milton Paradise Lost (1667) iii. 716 and vii. 244, respectively. In 18th-cent. dictionaries the stress is marked variously on the first and the second syllable; from the 19th cent. stress is more commonly marked on the second syllable, but Worcester (1846) gives stress on the third syllable as an alternative. The word was reintroduced into modern cosmology by P. J. Steinhardt (compare quots. 1998¹ at sense 1b and 2001 at sense 1b). 1. a. In classical and medieval philosophy: a fifth essence existing in addition to the four elements, supposed to be the substance of which the celestial bodies were composed and to be latent in all things; (Alchemy) this essence, supposed to be able to be extracted by distillation or other procedures. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > alchemy > other alchemical substances or theories > [noun] > fifth essence quintessencec1460 heavena1475 fifth substance1561 c1460 (?c1435) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 667 Aurum potabile..In quynt-essense [v.r. quyntencense] best restauracioun. a1475 Bk. Quinte Essence (1889) 5 Þat erþely watir wole first come out..departinge bitwixe it, and þe quinte essence, þat is, mannys heuene sublymed. a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Abbot of Tungland in Poems (1998) I. 57 Me thocht seir fassonis he assailȝeit To mak the quintessance and failȝeit. 1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation i. iv. sig. A v^v The quint essence or fyfte substaunce, is a body of it selfe. 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 256 This cannot bee done without proiection of the Elixar or Quintescense vpon mettalls. 1660 J. Harding tr. Paracelsus Archidoxis i. 35 The Quintessence therefore, is a certain matter Corporally extracted out of all things, which Nature hath produced. 1701 tr. J. Le Clerc Lives Primitive Fathers 309 That the Soul was of the same Nature with Heaven, or of the Quint-Essence which Heaven is made of. 1724 I. Watts Logick 16 They supposed the heavens to be a quintessence, or a fifth sort of body. 1812 Edinb. Rev. 20 171 Which [ether] gave occasion to the famous quinta essentia, or quintessence of the schoolmen. 1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 18 The young deities discussed..Orb, quintessence, and sunbeams. 1884 Mind 9 252 There is no fifth element or ‘quintessence’ in Bruno's system. 1919 Science 3 Jan. 1/2 Aristotle's elements—earth, air, fire, water and the quintessence, derived perhaps from yet more ancient philosophy—were not plentiful enough to account for all the manifold phenomena of nature. 1988 K. Logan Paganism & Occult 132 To others, it relates to the ‘quintessence’, the luminous and invisible fifth element that binds together the normal four elements of earth, air, fire and water. b. Astronomy. A form of dark energy that varies in time and space and has negative pressure, proposed to account for the apparent accelerating expansion of the universe as suggested by observations of some distant supernovae. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > energy or power of doing work > [noun] > specific types of energy internal energy1654 positive energy1807 chemical energy1809 energy1852 potential energy1853 atomic energy1854 latent energy1854 static energy1869 free energy1884 rest energy1925 nuclear energy1958 radial energy1959 tangential energy1959 geothermal1960 dark energy1998 quintessence1998 1989 L. M. Kraus Fifth Essence ix. 217 The prime particle physics candidates for dark matter are ‘honest’ ones—at least as honest as Anaximander's ‘indefinite’ or Aristotle's ‘quintessence’.] 1998 P. J. Steinhardt & R. R. Caldwell in Astron. Soc. Pacific Conf. Ser. 151 14 In this lecture, we introduce the possibility that the missing energy consists of ‘quintessence’: a time-dependent and spatially inhomogeneous component with negative pressure. The negative pressure means that this component has an equation-of-state different from that of baryons, neutrinos, dark matter, or radiation. We refer to this fifth component as ‘quintessence’. 1998 Sci. Amer. Sept. 13/2 The QMAP results corroborate the prevailing theory of inflation—with the twist that the universe is only one third matter (both ordinary and dark) and two thirds ‘quintessence’, a bizarre form of energy, possibly inherent in empty space. 1999 Nature 4 Mar. 25/2 Quintessence began as Einstein's cosmological constant, Λ. It has negative gravitational mass: its gravity pushes things apart. 2001 Sci. Amer. Jan. 43/1 Steinhard [sic] was one of the originators of the theory of inflation... He reintroduced the term ‘quintessence’ after his youngest son Will and daughter Cindy picked it out from several alternatives. 2. The essence which characterizes, and can be extracted from, any substance (see essence n. 9a); a highly refined essence or extract, spec. (Chemistry) an alcoholic solution obtained by infusion at a gentle heat. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical substances > [noun] > essence or essential principle quintessencea1475 alcohol1590 tincture1612 potestas1683 exaltation1686 a1475 Bk. Quinte Essence (1889) 10 Þis oyle, þat is to seie, quinta essencia of gold, hath þe mooste swetnes and vertu to a-swage and putte awei þe ache of woundis... Also in þe same maner ȝe may drawe out of siluer, quinte essencie. a1500 in D. W. Singer Catal. Lat. & Vernacular Alchemical MSS (1928) I. 276 Here I be~gyne the grett and royall work of the 5a. sense of Mercurye, acordynge the worke of master Arnold..here after folowith the worke of the quynta essens of commen Marcury. 1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health (title) The newe jewell of health,..treating very amplye of all dystillations of waters, of oyles, balmes, quintessences, etc. 1607 R. Pricket Ld. Coke his Speech & Charge H^v To vnderstand the nature, quintessence, & spirit of the Minerals. 1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 372 The curiosity that men use in weighing gold, or precious quintessences for medicine. 1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. lxxv. 671 Quintessence of Vipers..is of wonderful virtue for purifying the blood, &c. 1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 131. ⁋9 I looked upon that sooty Drug..as the Quintessence of English Bourdeaux. 1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. II. 327 Alcohol dissolves resins and resinous gums: these solutions are called Tinctures, Elixirs, Quintessences, &c. 1850 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1872) 3rd Ser. i. 3 In the drop of venom..there is concentrated the quintessence of a poison. 1926 E. A. Powell In Barbary iii. 34 The perfumes sold here, remember, are not the ordinary scents of commerce,..but concentrated quintessences, the merest drop of which upon a handkerchief or glove or sleeve confers a fragrance which will last for days. 1992 W. H. Brock Fontana Hist. Chem. i. 26 John's advocation of the quintessence was extremely important since it encouraged pharmacists to try and extract other quintessences from herbs and minerals, and thus to usher in the age of iatrochemistry in the sixteenth century. 3. figurative. a. The most essential part or feature of some non-material thing; the purest or most perfect form or manifestation of some quality, idea, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [noun] > most perfect form or manifestation quintessence1579 fifth-essence1584 sublimity1642 sublime1727 refinement1806 the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > [noun] > quintessence quintessence1579 essence1582 fifth-essence1584 elixir1638 distillation1650 sublimate1657 alcohol1830 quintessential1899 1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. B.6 Some Italian Quintessence of mischiefe meante to be compassed against the church of Christ. 1590 R. Hitchcock tr. F. Sansovino Quintesence of Wit Ep. Ded. sig. A2 A naturall quintesence of knowledge. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 309 What a peece of worke is a man..: the beautie of the world; the paragon of Annimales; and yet to me, what is this Quintessence of dust. View more context for this quotation 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. E8 Certayne artificiall rocks, most curiously contriued by the very quintessence of arte. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης vi. 53 The Law of England, which Lawyers say is the quintessence of reason. 1707 E. Ward London Terræ-filius No. 2. 35 She's the very Quintescence of ill-Manners. 1759 R. Jackson Hist. Rev. Pennsylvania 271 The last Period of the Governor's Message was the very Quintessence of Invective. 1850 Athenæum 23 Feb. 212/2 This seems to us the very quintessence of penny wisdom and pound folly in management. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. ix. xxxvii. 181 This passage contains the very quintessence of Pauline theology. 1891 G. B. Shaw (title) The quintessence of Ibsenism. 1940 H. G. Wells Babes in Darkling Wood ii. iii. 198 They thought strikes and hunger marches the quintessence of politics and Soviet Russia heaven on earth. 1973 D. Aaron Unwritten War vii. 118 Charleston, the hatchery of rebellion and quintessence of Southernness. 1994 D. Fallowell 20th Cent. Char. 14 He sold advertising space. I thought it was the worst thing. It's the quintessence of hucksterism. b. The most typical example of a category or class; the most perfect embodiment of a certain type of person or thing. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [noun] > standard or type of idea1586 quintessence1590 top1593 ideal1796 ideal case1813 beau-ideal1820 1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall 8 A Quintessence..of all the picked yoouth. 1610 Histrio-mastix ii. 161 Heere's the very quintessence of Duckes. 1622 J. Taylor Sir Gregory Nonsence sig. A8^v When strait I might descry, The Quintescence of Grubstreet, well distild Through Cripplegate. 1758 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 503 A priest (called ‘the Bishop of Down’), the quintessence of an Irish brogueneer. 1823 W. Scott Let. Aug. (1935) VIII. 64 You have escaped the quintessence of bores. 1845 G. P. R. James Arrah Neil I. ii. 42 He was the quintessence of an ordinary-minded man. 1893 R. F. Burton tr. Il Pentamerone I. 178 The fox, never dreaming that the other was a quintessence of foxery, found a woman more a fox than herself. 1970 T. Southern Blue Movie ii. xii. 117 Du Couvier, the facial magician, had transfigured them into the quintessence of fifteen-year-old schoolgirls. 1991 C. Lycett Green Perfect Eng. Country House (BNC) 27 If the Ley is the quintessence of Herefordshire Elizabethan, then Restrop is the quintessence of north Wiltshire Elizabethan. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). quintessencev. Brit. /kwɪnˈtɛsns/, U.S. /kwɪnˈtɛs(ə)ns/ Forms: see quintessence n. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: quintessence n. Etymology: < quintessence n. Compare French quintessenser (1576; French quintessencer), Middle French quintessencier (1584; French quintessencier). Now rare. 1. transitive. To extract the quintessence of or from (something). Usually in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > inform or give a thing its essence [verb (transitive)] > deprive of essence or quintessence quintessence1584 quintessentiate1606 dispirit1642 unsoul1652 eviscerate1664 spirit1677 1584 King James VI & I Ess. Prentise Poesie sig. Diii I quint-essence the Poets soule. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 20^v Those ruddy inuesturings, and scarlet habilements..shall they exhalingly quintessence [1593–4printed quintenssence; 1613 quintessence]. 1609 S. Grahame Anat. Humors f. 66 Thou doeth quintiscens thy vnderstanding and imploys thy wits leaving no deceit vnsought how to get money. a1649 W. Drummond Irene in Wks. (1711) 170 For Quintessencing and Alembicking thee, and using thee as Alchymists do Gold. 1702 E. Taylor Poems (1960) 172 Th'heavenly Orbs all Quintessenced clear. 1844 Foreign Q. Rev. 33 186 The science of the cook consists..in quintessencing (so to speak) the viands. 1887 Littell's Living Age 15 Oct. 113/2 Such idealism..is truth quintessenced and raised to the highest power. 1909 Englewood (Chicago) Times 22 Oct. The particular episode into which all the malevolent venom of these parasites was quintessenced. 1977 J. Regis Let. in P. Beale Dict. Catch Phrases (1993) 4 The most famous of the early Bovril advertisements... showed a fine-looking bull mourning the brother quintessenced in a tin of Bovril. †2. transitive. To take (out) of or from (something) as a quintessence. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 75 ^v It is a kind of Alchymical quintessensing a heauen out of earth. a1612 W. Fowler Tarantula of Love xii, in Wks. (1914) I. 148 To quintescence great ioyes of gretest greif. 1618 W. Barclay Nature & Effects Well at King-horne 7 This water hath the most spirituall operation of mercury, quintessenced from the tinne. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1460v.1584
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