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▪ I. ‖ esse|ˈɛsiː|
[L. esse to be, inf. of sum, but used by the schoolmen as a n.]
1. In med.L. phrase in esse, in actual existence; opposed to in posse, in potentiality.
1592Nobody & Some-b. 1299 Like a king in Esse..this night, Lets make a hostile uprore in the Court. 1597Howson Serm. 31 Our spirituall preferments in esse and in posse. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. 169 Some one, that may by common possibility..be in esse at or before the particular estate determines. 1818Cruise Digest VI. 19 All natural persons who are in esse at the time when a will is made.
2. a. Essence, essential nature.
1642Sir E. Dering Sp. on Relig. 14 Dec. v. 16 The very esse of every Synod doth subsist in a double foundation. 1736Bailey, Esse [in the school philosophy] is used in the same sense with essence; principally for that which is actual, or actually existing. 1920Life of Faith 23 June 619/2 The great missionary meeting on the Saturday morning..is not the esse of the movement. 1929I. M. Clark Hist. Ch. Discip. in Scot. 208 Some form of law will be necessary to regulate her [sc. the Church's] life and protect that distinctive character which is her esse.
b. Esp. in contrast with bene esse. Cf. well-being vbl. n.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. Mem. 3 Subs. 15 p. 170 How many poore Schollers haue lost their wits..neglecting all worldly affaires, and their owne health, wealth, esse, and benè esse to gaine knowledge? 1899Daily News 21 Oct. 7/1 So long as your clergy believe that Episcopacy is essential not only to the bene esse, but to the esse of the Church. 1958Listener 12 June 977/1 No Anglican could possibly dream of claiming that Establishment..is of the esse of the Church. Our question is simply whether it is of its bene esse.
▪ II. esse
obs. var. ask v., ease n.; also of is: see be v. |