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eˈssentialize, v.
In 7 essentialise.
[f. as prec. + -ize.]
†a. trans. To make essential; to give essence or being to. Obs.
1669Gale tr. Plato in Crt. Gentiles i. iii. iii. 325 The Divine Opificer, by whose..effective word, althings were essentializ'd.
b. To formulate in essential form, to express the essential form of.
1913Westm. Gaz. 22 Feb. 5/1 Its difficulties and restrictions, instead of essentialising his thought, have frustrated it. 1922Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Jan. 10/1 A poet [sc. Dante] in whom the manifold passions and cultural movements of his time were essentialized and ennobled into the highest poetical utterance. 1923Glasgow Herald 19 Apr. 4 The essentialising flame of Rembrandt's genius. 1923A. Huxley On Margin 153 That consolation and strength..essentialized and distilled in the form of art. 1930N. Shepherd Weatherhouse x. 181 Garry went drunk to bed, but not with whiskey. Again he had seen life essentialised.
Hence eˈssentializer.
1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. iii. iii. 320 The first fabricator, perfector, essentialiser of Beings or he that gives Essence to Beings. |