n.;
v. t.
What marvel if I thus essay to sing? Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]
Essaying nothing she can not perform. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]
A danger lest the young enthusiast . . . should essay the impossible. J. C. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who essays. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A writer of an essay, or of essays. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
n. [ F. essence, L. essentia, formed as if fr. a p. pr. of esse to be. See Is, and cf. Entity. ]
The laws are at present, both in form and essence, the greatest curse that society labors under. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]
Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence of this virtue [ charity ]. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]
The essence of Addison's humor is irony. Courthope. [ 1913 Webster ]
And uncompounded is their essence pure. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
As far as gods and heavenly essences
Can perish. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
He had been indulging in fanciful speculations on spiritual essences, until . . . he had and ideal world of his own around him. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]
The . . . word essence . . . scarcely underwent a more complete transformation when from being the abstract of the verb “to be, ” it came to denote something sufficiently concrete to be inclosed in a glass bottle. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]
Nor let the essences exhale. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
n. The doctrine or the practices of the Essenes. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
a. [ Cf. F. essentiel. See Essence. ]
Majestic as the voice sometimes became, there was forever in it an essential character of plaintiveness. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]
Is it true, that thou art but a name,
And no essential thing? Webster (1623). [ 1913 Webster ]
Judgment's more essential to a general
Than courage. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]
How to live? -- that is the essential question for us. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]
Essential character (Biol.),
Essential disease,
Essential fever
Essential oils (Chem.),