To reduce to or constitute the essence of something; to make essential or fundamental.
From Latin essentia plus -ate (to make or cause to be). This is a rare, archaic or highly technical philosophical term.
This word is so rare that even many philosophy professors might need to look it up — it's the kind of term a medieval scholast might have used when trying to distill something down to its absolute core.
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