QUINTESSENCE
\kwˈɪntɛsəns], \kwˈɪntɛsəns], \k_w_ˈɪ_n_t_ɛ_s_ə_n_s]\
Definitions of QUINTESSENCE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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the most typical example or representative of a type
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the purest and most concentrated essence of something
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the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies
By Princeton University
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the most typical example or representative of a type
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the purest and most concentrated essence of something
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The fifth or last and highest essence or power in a natural body. See Ferment oils, under Ferment.
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Hence: An extract from anything, containing its rarest virtue, or most subtle and essential constituent in a small quantity; pure or concentrated essence.
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To distil or extract as a quintessence; to reduce to a quintessence.
By Oddity Software
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The fifth or last and highest essence or power in a natural body. See Ferment oils, under Ferment.
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Hence: An extract from anything, containing its rarest virtue, or most subtle and essential constituent in a small quantity; pure or concentrated essence.
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To distil or extract as a quintessence; to reduce to a quintessence.
By Noah Webster.
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The pure essence, or most necessary part, of anything; hence, the summing up in concrete form of certain qualities in their greatest perfection; as, she is the quintessence of neatness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A name formerly given to alcohol, impregnated with the principles of some drug. It was, consequently, often synonymous with Alcoholic tincture. The most volatile principles of bodies were, also, called Quintessences.
By Robley Dunglison
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n. [Latin] In alchemy, the fifth or last and highest essence or power in a natural body ;-pure or concentrated essence ;-an extract from any thing containing all its virtues in a small or condensed form ; the essential part or substance of a thing.
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Quinones
- Hydrocarbon rings which contain two moieties position. They can be substituted in any position except at the ketone groups.