138 adjectives to describe essences

Thus, a figure including a space between three lines, is the real as well as nominal essence of a triangle; it being not only the abstract idea to which the general name is annexed, but the very ESSENTIA or being of the thing itself; that foundation from which all its properties flow, and to which they are all inseparably annexed.

His sphere of usefulness, oftentimes usefulness to himself, only, lies among the roseate clouds of the morn, or the spiritual essences of the cerulean regions, but, like other human beings, he cannot live on the zephyr breeze, or on the moonbeams flitting o'er the rippling stream.

And he had some of that concentrated essence of pitchblende in the chest when we started.

It is the individual part of each child that is his most precious possession, his immortal side: Froebel calls it his "divine essence," and makes the cultivation of it the aim of education; he is right, and any more general aim will lead only to half-developed human beings.

The subtlest essence of the thing they worship and desire, they have in their own nature,they are.

Mark this well; for it must be so, if morality, that is right and goodness, is of the eternal and immutable essence of God.

Each distinct abstract Idea is a distinct Essence.

Shelley raises in his poem a very marked contrast between the death of Adonais (Keats) as a mortal man succumbing to 'the common fate,' and the immortality of his spirit as a vital immaterial essence surviving the death of the body: he uses terms such as might be adopted by any believer in the doctrine of 'the immortality of the soul,' in the ordinary sense of that phrase.

His bow, for action ready bent, And arrows, with a head of bone, Can only mean that life is spent, And not the finer essence gone.

The names of MIXED MODES, being general, they stand, as has been shewed, for sorts or species of things, each of which has its peculiar essence.

Toys were the simplified essences of things, pure, perfect and manageable.

But for the ethereal essence, The fount of fiery life Which served for that Titanic strife, Byron would have been merely a more melodious Moore and a more accomplished Brummell.

The man himself, as the birds had done before him, had the appearance of materializing spontaneously from some distilled essence of his environment.

Shelley raises in his poem a very marked contrast between the death of Adonais (Keats) as a mortal man succumbing to 'the common fate,' and the immortality of his spirit as a vital immaterial essence surviving the death of the body: he uses terms such as might be adopted by any believer in the doctrine of 'the immortality of the soul,' in the ordinary sense of that phrase.

Nay, further, our ideas of substances are all inadequate, not only when they are taken for representations of the inner essence

Difficulties in the supposition of a certain number of real Essences To distinguish substantial beings into species, according to the usual supposition, that there are certain precise essences or forms of things, whereby all the individuals existing are, by nature distinguished into species, these things are necessary: 15.

Which, though it be not the real essence of any substance that exists, is yet the specific essence to which our name belongs, and is convertible with it; by which we may at least try the truth of these nominal essences.

This, however, would not be the case, unless it was converted to itself; and it would not be converted, to itself unless it had a separate essence.

The father said: "My son, that subtile essence which you do not perceive there, of that very essence this great Nyagrodha tree exists.

Sympathy, the magnetic virtue, the hidden essence of our life, was extinct.

FAUST With gentlemen like you indeed The inward essence from the name we read, As all too plainly it doth appear, When Beelzebub, Destroyer, Liar, meets the ear.

The divine poet whose volume she now held clasped caressingly in both hands had prepared the way for this, by sending through every vein and fibre of her being the sweet, subtile essence of passionate thought,the spring-tide of youth and love, which makes the story of Romeo and Juliet glow and throb with immortal freshness and vitality.

Indeed, humanitas was a word in familiar use amongst the Romans; but in a far different sense, and stood not for the abstract essence of any substance; but was the abstracted name of a mode, and its concrete humanus, not homo.

The air was warm still, and yet full of those myriad indescribable essences that betoken the falling of the dew; and mingling with, yet without dominating them, was the sweet penetrating odour of newly-cut hay.

A more general and expeditious way of making this sauce is to stir in 1-1/2 tablespoonfuls of anchovy essence to 1/2 pint of melted butter, and to add seasoning to taste.

138 adjectives to describe  essences