essentiall

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essentiall (comparative more essentiall, superlative most essentiall)

  1. Obsolete form of essential.
    • 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English:
      [] 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.