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1827 C. Lamb in W. Hone Table Bk. I. 488 The whole theory of the reason of our delight in Tragic Representations, which has cost so many elaborate chapters of criticism, is condensed in these four last lines: Aristotle quintessentialised.

1829 Examiner 7/1 Congreve in his discourses has so distilled, re-distilled, and quintessentialized each individual period.

1880 Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. 27 766 As he advances in age the poet quintessentializes..his thought.

1924 G. Seldes Seven Lively Arts 158 If sterility does not set in for the more notable Broadway product, it will be because something of what Jim Europe had to give has been quintessentialized by his successors.

1969 ELH 36 23 If society is cursed at the root by its theatrical origin, the theater proper quintessentializes the evil.

2001 Times (Nexis) 10 Mar. As a dancer, and a director, your job is to cut straight through to the truth, to quintessentialise the moment.

1847 M. C. Clarke Shakesp. Prov. 7 Such quintessentialised drops of wisdom are surely not ill stored up.

1909 F. Thompson Shelley 48 These things make very quintessentialized loveliness.

1991 R. Howard tr. E. M. Cioran Anathemas & Admirations x. 182 When one lives this quintessentialized—or sclerotic—form of expression, it is difficult to wrest oneself away from it and to care much for any other variety.