Word Meanings - COESSENTIALITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Participation of the same essence. Johnson.

PARTICIPATION
1. The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows. These deities are so by participation. Bp. Stillingfleet. What an honor, that God should admit us into such a blessed participation of
JOHNSONIANISM
A manner of acting or of writing peculiar to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson.
JOHNSONESE
The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words. E. Everett.
JOHNSON GRASS
A tall perennial grass , valuable in the Southern and Western States for pasture and hay. The rootstocks are large and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine. Called also Cuba grass, Means grass, Evergreen millet, and Arabian millet.
JOHNSONIAN
Pertaining to or resembling Dr. Johnson or his style; pompous; inflated.
ESSENCE
1. The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence. 2. The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which
QUINTESSENCE
1. The fifth or last and highest essence or power in a natural body. See Ferment oils, under Ferment. Note: The ancient Greeks recognized four elements, fire, air, water, and earth. The Pythagoreans added a fifth and called it nether, the fifth