Essential(a.) Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.
Essential(a.) Hence, really existing; existent.
Essential(a.) Important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary.
Essential(a.) Containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil.
Essential(a.) Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.
Essential(a.) Idiopathic; independent of other diseases.
Essentiality(n.) The quality of being essential; the essential part.
Essentiate(v. i.) To become assimilated; to be changed into the essence.
Essentiate(v. t.) To form or constitute the essence or being of.
Essentiated(imp. & p. p.) of Essentiate
Essentiating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Essentiate
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