consubstantial
adjUK /ˌkɒnsəbˈstanʃəl/ · US /ˌkɑnsəbˈstænʃəl/
Etymology From Latin consubstāntiālis, from con- + substāntia (“substance”), translating Ancient Greek ὁμοούσιον (homooúsion).
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Of the same substance or essence.
- the Holy Spirit is consubstantial with the Father
- I have no more made my booke, then my booke hath made me. A booke consubstantiall to his Author[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 18, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
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- But the more fashionable saints of the Arian times, the intrepid Athanasius, the learned Gregory Nazianzen, and the other pillars of the church, who supported with ability and success the Nicene doctrine, appeared to consider the expression of substance as if it had been synonymous with that of nature; and they ventured to illustrate their meaning, by affirming that three men, as they belong to the same common species, are consubstantial, or homoousian to each other.1781, Edward Gibbon, chapter XXI, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume II, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 252:
- Thus, the characteristic properties of animals and plants were not only regarded as representations, but as actual emanations of the divine power, consubstantial with his own essence.1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 25:
- Derived terms
- consubstantialism, consubstantialist, consubstantiality, consubstantially
- Related terms
- coessential, coeternal