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Of, relating to, or constituting the essential nature of something.

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Usage examples (8)
  • Their being is their quidditative constitution, which also defines the effective possibility of access to actual existence: all essences, as thought of and therefore
  • In Henry's lexicon, these two moments indicate respectively the exemplar, which is the divine idea, and the exemplatum (also called ideatum), which is an essence fully...
  • Cahors, yea and those of Bourdeaux in Brie, who would have bought them for the substantific quality of the elementary complexion, which is intronificated in the terrestreity of...
  • It is a substance, not of itself as form, but reductively, as the quidditative act, as the material cause belongs to the same category in the sense of being a receptive...
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