† in-essent,a.Obs.rare—1. [f. in adv. + L. essens, essent-em, assumed pres.pple. of esse to be.] That is within. 1628Feltham Resolves ii. [i.] lxxxviii. 254 When the ayre is thus moued, it comes by degrees to the eare..and [is] by that in-essent Ayre, carried to the Auditory nerue.