1. quintessence - Noun
2. quintessence - Verb
The fifth or last and highest essence or power in a natural body. See Ferment oils, under Ferment.
Hence: An extract from anything, containing its rarest virtue, or most subtle and essential constituent in a small quantity; pure or concentrated essence.
To distil or extract as a quintessence; to reduce to a quintessence.
Source: Webster's dictionaryHe used the colony as a testing ground to see who had sufficient levels of quintessence, and those Alteans were lured away on the pretext of going to a second colony. Source: Internet
Each celebrity has a tabloid quintessence as distinctive as a fingerprint: a pithy descriptor that distills their intrinsic scandal-value for those whose idea of journalism begins and ends at the supermarket check-out. Source: Internet
McLean said, "The last album ( Don McLean ) was a study in depression whereas the new one ( Playin' Favorites ) is almost the quintessence of optimism, with a feeling of 'Wow, I just woke up from a bad dream.' Source: Internet
It is also the place where Athos and Nergal came upon the knowledge of dragons, and where Nergal learned how to steal a creature's life force, or quintessence, and use it to fuel his own avaricious desires. Source: Internet
Quintessence Theatre, An Tain Arts Centre's company in residence, are busy putting the final touches on their latest production 'Some of Our Children' which opens next Tuesday, February 20th, in the centre's Studio Theatre. Source: Internet
There is no evidence that the vacuum energy does vary, but it may be the case if, for example, the vacuum energy is (even in part) the potential of a scalar field such as the residual inflaton (also see quintessence ). Source: Internet