quintessence

t. [QUINTESSENCE, 8.] Το extract as a quinte ence; to distill. "The bodies then (all frailty burn'd away) Well quinte enc'd , new qualities receive." Stirling: Domes-day; The Fourth Houre. quint-es-sen-tial, quint-es-sen-tiall (ti as sh), a. [Eng. quinte enc(e); -ial . ] Consisting of quinte ence; of the nature of a quinte ence. "Burns has wit, fancy, humor, and pa ion in abundance, together with that quinte ential and indescribable gift of poetry." -Atheneum, April 23, 1881.