v. [UN-2 4.] trans. To deprive of essence or essential properties.
1642. T. Case, God’s Rising (1644), 8. The Enemies of Gods truth and people would … not un-scepter him only, but un-essence him.
1659. Revett, in Lovelace, Poems (1904), 212. While we sustain the losse that thou art gone Vn-essenc’d in the separation.
1822. Lamb, Elia, I. Distant Correspondents. Not only does truth, in these long intervals, unessence herself, but [etc.].
