Their being is their quidditative constitution, which also defines the effective possibility of access to actual existence: all essences, as thought of and therefore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol)] Reference

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 constituted in its quidditative content and so able to be placed in act.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol)] Reference

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 their quidditative nature, to extraneize the blasting mists and whirlwinds upon our vines, indeed not ours, but these round about us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference

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 potentiality.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

Brie, who would have bought them for the substantific quality of the elementary complexion, which is intronificated in the terrestreity of their quidditative nature, to extraneize the blasting mists and whirlwinds upon our vines, indeed not ours, but these round about us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1] Reference

He sees the science of psychology as concerned not with some quidditative concept of the soul arrived at by a priori reasoning, but with specifying the relation between animate qualities and the soul as their proper subject: “the natural philosopher only studies substances in relation to their motion and operations.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Buridan] Reference

The Lay of the Land is the third Frank Bascombe narration — Frank being the dreamy, sadly self-monitoring sportswriter of The Sportswriter,, and thereafter the less dreamy but still sadly self-monitoring real-estate broker of the Pulitzer Prize – winning Independence Day, a man at such a quidditative loss as to prompt his ex-wife to remark, Everything’s in quotes with you, Frank.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out of Character] Reference

Deum significant quidditative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philosophy of the Conditioned] Reference