Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

In esse

In esse

[Latin]

In being; actually existing; -- distinguished from in posse, or in potentia, which denote that a thing is not, but may be.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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