Obs. Pa. pple. in 6 essentiate. [f. as if on L. *essentiāt- ppl. stem of *essentiāre, f. essentia: see ESSENCE.]
1. trans. To make into an essence or being; to form or constitute the essence or being of.
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., I. 39. For whosoeuer sayth that the Sonn was essentiate or made to be of his Father, denieth that he is of himself.
1647. Saltmarsh, Sparkl. Glory (1847), 66. That which forms, essentiates, or constitutes the true Christian, is the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
1680. Baxter, Answ. Stillingfl., 8. A Church as well as a Kingdom, is essentiated by a pars regens, and pars subdita.
1687. Death’s Vis., Pref. 4. Those turns of Fancy and Wit, that almost Essentiate a Poem.
b. To essentiate together: to unite in essence; to make into one essence or being.
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T., 9 b. What is a man, if the parts of his body be disparted, and not incorporated and essentiate together?
2. intr. To become essence; to be assimilated or converted into a being or body.
1599. B. Jonson, Ev. Man out of Hum., V. iv. What comes nearest the nature of that it feeds, converts quicker to nourishment, and doth sooner essentiate.
3. trans. To refine into an ‘essence’ or subtle extract. (See ESSENTIATED ppl. a.)
Hence Essentiated ppl. a. Essentiating vbl. sb. and ppl. a. Essentiator, he that ‘essentiates.’
1656. H. More, Antid. Ath. (1662), 14. A rabble of Self-essentiated and divided Deities.
1675. Evelyn, Terra (1778), 170. Essentiated Spirits … are as pernicious to them [plants] as brandy and hot waters to men.
1736. Bailey, Essentiated, made or brought into essences, or essential spirits.
1635. Montague, in Hammond’s Wks. (1684), II. 701. If it were simply necessary to the essentiating of a church.
1681. Baxter, Acc. Sherlocke, v. 204. A Constitutive Cause in the common sense of Logicians, signifieth the Essentiating Cause.
1689. in 6th Coll. Papers Pres. Affairs, 15. One Corporation made up of three Constituent Essentiating Parts, King, Lords and Commons.
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., I. 38. That he [the Father] is the onely essentiator or maker of the essence.
1677. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, II. IV. 249. He who is the first independent Essence and Essentiator of althings can be but one.
