esse

Noun

1. Essence, essential nature.
   • Hence it is that the Univerſe, which was created from his Eſſe, and which regarded as to Uſes is his Image, obtained theſe three in all and ſingular the Things appertaining to it. - 1788, Emanuel Swedenborg, The Wisdom...
   • […]that is his proprium, since the esse of the life of man is his will; - 1801, Emanuel Swedenborg, Arcana Cœlestia: or, Heavenly Mysteries Contained in the Sacred Scriptures, or Word of the Lord, Manifested and Laid...
   • In like manner Christians treading closely on the heels of Jews, notwithstanding all the divine miracles, which accompanied their first establishment, iu^([sic]) order to call them from the Deistical worship of a...