English

Verb

essentiate ‎(third-person singular simple present essentiates, present participle essentiating, simple past and past participle essentiated)

1. (intransitive) To become assimilated
2. (transitive) To form or constitute the essence or being of.
   • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book I, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 21:

     "That a number of Self-essentiated Deities plainly takes away the Being of the true God."

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Boyle to this entry?)