in esse
Americanadverb
adjective
Etymology
Origin of in esse
Latin, literally: in being
Example Sentences
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Position is of small account, though the line is always drawn at shopkeepers in esse.
From Town Life in Australia by Twopeny, Richard Ernest Nowell
It is an omelet that cannot be made without breaking eggs, not only eggs in esse, but also eggs in posse.
From The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 by Gildersleeve, Basil L. (Basil Lanneau)
At this great school of the aristocracy, would-be and real—barons and dukes in esse, and the herald's office alone, or bedlam, knows what in posse, I remained for the customary number of years.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 by Various
I might as well join in the safe old tum, tum: A hero's an excellent loadstar,—but, bless ye, What infinite odds 'twixt a hero to come And your only too palpable hero in esse!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 by Various
To the latter question Gilbert replies that in the darkness color exists in posse, but not in esse.
From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Handerson, Henry Ebenezer
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