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Keywords: ousia, grosser, intrinsic, embody, philosophy

The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence.

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The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real essence); the real being, divested of all logical accidents; that quality which constitutes or marks the true nature of anything; distinctive character; hence, virtue or quality of a thing, separated from its grosser parts.

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Constituent substance.

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A being; esp., a purely spiritual being.

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The predominant qualities or virtues of a plant or drug, extracted and refined from grosser matter; or, more strictly, the solution in spirits of wine of a volatile or essential oil; as, the essence of mint, and the like.

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essence: term being used as a comparative reference to that of form or appearance. Essence is the Spiritual or inner true nature of things as opposed to that which can be experience by the five outer senses! On an essence level we are all God and nothing we have ever done or could ever do can change this. However, to fully realize God we also need to embody God on the form level - that is in the world of outer consciousness which is the world of form.

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Comprised of those properties or characteristics that account for what a thing is. E.g., Descartes claims that thinking is essential to the self (that thing referred to by "I" in the claim "I am").

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The full nature of what God is. The intrinsic or indispensable properties that serve to characterize or identify something. The inherent, unchanging nature of a thing.

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The act of actuality which perfects and determines a thing in its species; that which makes a thing to be what it is.

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(a) the permanent as contrasted with the accidental element of being; (b) the fundamental true of self; (c) the truth from which all growth comes

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Below the surface form and the appearance of all manifestation lies the essence of a thing, its inner reality which often remains hidden below the form or is displayed in its exterior reality as appearance. Essence and appearance need not be opposite or different, but often they are.

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What a thing is. For Greek philosophy, it means substance ( ousia), that which is not apparent but is the true reality about things what can be conceived, what is universal. In Plato, it is the Forms or Ideas (from the Noumena). A similar idea is used by Santayana, Husserl, Thomas Aquinas, Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Heidegger.

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Essence properly denotes the intrinsic constitutive elements by which a thing is what it is and is distinguished from every other. Essence furnishes an answer to the question What? ( Quid?) See the related terms Nature and Substance.

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Real or ultimate nature of an individual being or thing, especially as opposed to its existence or its accidental qualities; the properties or attributes by means of which something can be categorised or identified; fundamental nature; the unchanging and unchangeable inward nature of something.

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an object's nature

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That which makes an object or being what it is in itself; the nature rather than the existence of anything.

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( Essence): n. The permanent as contrasted with the accidental element of being, the individual, real, or ultimate nature of a thing especially as opposed to its existence, the properties or attributes by means of which something can be placed in its proper class or identified as being what it is.

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(Gr. ousia) Also translated as substance, nature or being. God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are "of one essence." Jesus Christ is "of one essence" with God the Father and the Holy Spirit in His divinity, and "of one essence" with all human beings in His humanity. God's essence is beyond the understanding and comprehension of His creatures. God can be known by humans through the divine energies and operations of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Ex. 33:18-23). See also ENERGY.

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disposition or quality of energy state [Imara]: 1. identifying nature: the quality or nature of something that identifies it or makes it what it is: 2. basic feature: the most basic element or feature of something: 3. perfect form: the perfect or idealized form of something, especially when embodied in a person: 4. philosophy ideal nature of something: the ideal nature of something, independent of and prior to its existence: 5. religion spiritual entity: a spiritual entity

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An intrinsic, fundamental nature or quality of something. The inward nature of anything which represents the underlying characteristics and relation to anything else.

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In philosophy, essence is the attribute (or set of attributes) that make an object or substance what it fundamentally is, and that it has necessary, in contrast with accident, properties that the object or substance has contingently and without which the substance could have existed. The notion of essence has acquired many slightly but importantly different shades of meaning throughout the history of philosophy; most of them derive from its use by Aristotle and its evolution within the scholastic tradition.

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Keywords: jing, lifestyle, preganancy, procreation, postnatal

A Substance stored in the Kidneys, responsible for birth, growth, reproduction and development.

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Also called Jing or Essential Qi in TCM, it is the basis for growth and development and various other physiological processes in the body. In some ways it is like the genetic code, providing the blueprint for other forms of energy. Some Essence is inherited from our parents and some is replenished from our food or depleted by age or poor lifestyle habits.

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a fluid substance that provides the basis of reproduction, growth, sexual power, conception and preganancy. It is the material foundation of qi and is stored in the kidney. Also referred to as Jing

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Keywords: perfume, odor, fragrant, scent, extract

Perfume; odor; scent; or the volatile matter constituting perfume.

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To perfume; to scent.

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Flavor components obtained in the evaporation process and returned to concentrated juices to heighten the flavor of the processed product.

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any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted

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a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor

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Extract. While the words may be used interchangeably US-Great Britain, all essences are extracts, but extracts are not all essences. A stock is a water extract of food. Other solvents (edible) may be oil, ethyl alcohol, as in wine or whiskey, or water. Wine and beer are vegetable or fruit stocks. A common oil extract is of cayenne pepper, used in Asian cooking (yulada). Oils and water essences are becoming popular as sauce substitutes. A common water essence is vegetable stock. A broth is more concentrated, as in beef broth, or bouillon. Beef tea is shin beef cubes and water sealed in a jar and cooked in a water bath for 12 to 24 hours. Most common are alcohol extracts, like vanilla. Not possible to have a water extract of vanilla (natural bean) but vanillin (chemical synth) is water solution. There are also emulsions lemon pulp and lemon oil and purees (often made with sugar) Oils, such as orange or lemon rind (zest) oil, may be extracted by storing in sugar in seal ed container. Distilled oils are not extracts or essences. Attar of rose (for perfume) is lard extracted rose petal oil.

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An oily, concentrated extract from foods, used to flavor certain dishes.

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Fragrant oil extracted from plant or herb.

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wo meanings: Refers to "odor kits" containing vials of representative flavor essence. Used occasionally by wineries to describe a late harvest, sweet red wine. Most frequently appears on bottle labels for Zinfandel red wine made from grapes picked at 35 deg. Brix or higher sugar content (see also nose).

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Keywords: soul, choicest, gist, nonphysical, selves

the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"

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Soul, or "higher" self, in distinction to the outer personality, or "lower" self. It generally refers to all nonphysical levels of self, including the astral and causal selves, as well as those that resonate with the three highest planes, although it can be used to refer only to the latter.

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means essential oil.

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Keywords: duane, sanaya, packer, homeopathic, roman

a form of homeopathic medicine, which is based on the premise that "like cures like"

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Behind form lies essence. Work on the essence and the right form will emerge. See Creating Money by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer.

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Keywords: metaphysical, intellectual, abstraction, type

an intellectual abstraction, not a metaphysical type

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Keywords: umbrella, mere, diversity, hides, species

a mere name that hides the diversity of individuals under the umbrella of a species

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Keywords: holistic, meaningful, entity, elements, total

The holistic total of the meaningful elements of an entity.

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Keywords: ought, cook, know, materials, uses

A cook ought to know the very essence of each of the materials he uses.

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Keywords: dream, scoping, reality, insufficient, manipulated

The essence of a dream is the data structure that defines the local objects of that dream. The essence of a dream is an object that may be manipulated and given a name. Due to the dynamic scoping of dreams, the essence of a dream is insufficient to fully characterize a dream: the dream only takes on a meaning within another dream, or reality itself. The understanding of a dream is only defined while the dream is actually occuring, and is a function of the essence of the dream together with the understanding in which the dream occurs.

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Keywords: exemplify, individual, set, properties, one

a set of properties that at most one individual can exemplify

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Keywords: metadata, audio, actual, video, programme

The actual program (audio, video and/or data) without metadata. See also: Metadata.

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Data providing an actual representation of programme content, for example digital audio or video samples.

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Keywords: literary, speech, theme, central, work

the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

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