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Quintessence
Quintessence Quin*tes"sence, v. t. To distil or extract as a quintessence; to reduce to a quintessence. [R.] --Stirling. ``Truth quintessenced and raised to the highest power.' --J. A. Symonds.
Quintessence
Quintessence Quin*tes"sence, n. [F., fr. L. quinta essentia fifth essence. See Quint, and Essence.] 1. The fifth or last and highest essence or power in a natural body. See Ferment oils, under Ferment. [Obs.] Note: The ancient Greeks recognized four elements, fire, air, water, and earth. The Pythagoreans added a fifth and called it nether, the fifth essence, which they said flew upward at creation and out of it the stars were made. The alchemists sometimes considered alcohol, or the ferment oils, as the fifth essence. 2. Hence: An extract from anything, containing its rarest virtue, or most subtle and essential constituent in a small quantity; pure or concentrated essence. Let there be light, said God; and forthwith light Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, Sprung from the deep. --Milton.
Quintessential
Quintessential Quin`tes*sen"tial, a. Of the nature of a quintessence; purest. ``Quintessential extract of mediocrity.' --G. Eliot.

Meaning of Tessen from wikipedia

- The ****anese war fan, or tessen (****anese: 鉄扇,てっせん, romanized: tessen, lit. '"iron fan"'), is a ****anese hand fan used as a weapon or for signalling. Several...
- lit. 'iron fan technique') is the martial art of the ****anese war fan (tessen). It is based on the use of the solid iron fan or the folding iron fan,...
- including once in the late 1500s when he fended off three opponents with a tessen, Sasaki was honored by Lord Hosokawa Tadaoki as the chief weapons master...
- several weapons and skills used. These weapons and arts included the war-fan (tessen), grappling (jujutsu), short-stick (tebō) and short-sword (kodachi). Originally...
- bujutsu"). Occasionally, incon****uous weapons such as tantō (daggers) or tessen (iron fans) were included in the curriculum of Edo jūjutsu. Another seldom-seen...
- relationship. Tessen Ishiyumi (穹 撤仙, Ishiyumi Tessen) The head of the Ishiyumi family, Tessen proved to be one of Mitsuomi's most loyal subordinates. Tessen normally...
- approx 45 cm in length. In the integrated art of Ikkaku-ryū juttejutsu, the tessen, or war fan, approximately 30 cm in length, is used in tandem with the jutte...
- feminine art. Fans were even used as a weaponcalled the iron fan, or tessen in ****anese. See also, the gunbai, a military leader's fan (in old ****an);...
- of the villains, Sheer, is mistaken briefly for Princess Iron Fan ("lady tessen"). She also appears in the 2020 Lego Monkie Kid show as a secondary antagonist...
- the role of symbolizing social class as well as a mechanical role. The tessen, a ****anese fan used in Feudal times, was a dangerous weapon hidden in plain...