QUINTESSENCE
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines · 1840 · p. 1066
The alchemists understood by this term, now no longer in scientific use, the solution in alcohol of the principles which this menstruum can extract from aromatic plants or flowers, by digestion, during some days, in the sun, a stove, or upon a sand-bath slightly warmed. A quinte ence, therefore, corresponds to the alcoholic tincture or e ence (not e ential oil) of the present day. See Perfumery . r.
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