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






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"In esse" Quotes from Famous Books



... months in time of peace. Mr. Thackeray accordingly insists on our confessing that, if the young cornet had remained in the service, he would have been one of the ablest commanders that ever lived. But this is not all. Pitt, it seems, was not merely a great poet, in esse, and a great general in posse, but a finished example of moral excellence, the just man made perfect. He was in the right when he attempted to establish an inquisition, and to give bounties for perjury, ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 1 • Thomas Babington Macaulay



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