Meanings
adjectiveessentiall (comparative more essentiall, superlative most essentiall)
comparative more essentiall · superlative most essentiall
- obsoleteObsolete form of essential.
[…] rather than alter his pace, or path (that Conscience or Reason boundeth him in) he will bee poor, undone; any thing but the Ratio formalis, essentiall of a Suist, or selfe-polititian, that is changeable.
1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English
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