quintessence

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A thing that is the most perfect example of its type; the most perfect embodiment of something; epitome, prototype.

   “As families and kindreds sometimes do; producing, after long ages of unnoted notability, some living quintescence of all the qualities they had, to flame forth as a man world-noted […]”

2. isim A pure substance.
3. isim The essence of a thing in its purest and most concentrated form.

   “For vvhat is ſilke but eu'n a Quinteſſence, / Made vvithout hands beyond al humane ſenſe? / A quinteſſence? nay vvel it may be call'd, / A deathleſſe tincture, ſent vs from the skies, / VVhoſe colour ſtands, vvhose gloſſe is ne're appalld, […]”

4. isim The fifth alchemical element, or essence, after earth, air, fire, and water that fills the universe beyond the terrestrial sphere.
5. isim A hypothetical form of dark energy postulated to explain observations of an accelerating universe.
6. fiil To reduce to its purest and most concentrated essence.