[f. prec. sb.] trans. a. To pour like an essence (in quot. fig.). b. To furnish or perfume with an essence. c. nonce-use. To compress the essence of (a book) into.
a. 1635. Quarles, Embl., I. v. (1718), 22. Love essenc’d in the hearts of men.
b. 1675. [see next].
1735. Pope, Donne Sat., IV. 232. [Ladies] Painted for sight, and essenced for the smell.
1784. Cowper, Task, II. 227. A girl, all essenced o’er With odours.
1823. [see next].
c. 1888. Punch, 1 Dec., 257/2. Diamonds Led is a three-volume novel essenced into five pages.
