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consubstantial

WordNet
  1. (adj) consubstantial
    regarded as the same in substance or essence (as of the three persons of the Trinity)
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Consubstantial
    Of the same kind or nature; having the same substance or essence; coessential. "Christ Jesus . . . coeternal and consubstantial with the Father and with the Holy Ghost."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. consubstantial
    Having the same substance or essence; coessential.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adj) Consubstantial
    kon-sub-stan′shal of the same substance, nature, or essence, esp. of the Trinity
  2. (v.i) Consubstantial
    to become so united
  3. (adj) Consubstantial
    united in one common substance
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L. consubstantialis,; con-, + substantialis,: cf. F. consubstantiel,. See Substantial

Usage in the news

"Consubstantial with the Father": That tongue-twister in the new Mass translation is one way we describe Jesus. americancatholic.org

Usage in scientific papers

Here E ∗ denotes the dual module; passing to duals is consubstantial with the nature of amenability as a limiting property, and indeed the corresponding condition on al l modules simply characterises compact groups instead.
A note on topological amenability

Usage in literature

O Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the consubstantial and undivided Godhead, I call upon thee and glorify thee. "Barlaam and Ioasaph" by St. John of Damascus

Is that then the divine substance wherein Father and Son are consubstantial? "Ulysses" by James Joyce

He had been reading a book that affirmed the consubstantiality of the sleep-dream and the hypnotic illusion. "The Landlord at Lion's Head, Complete" by William Dean Howells

The council decided, in the year 325, that Christ was consubstantial with the Father. "Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest" by Robert Green Ingersoll

There are persons who talk a great deal about Consubstantiation, and yet they know not what it means. "The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church" by G. H. Gerberding

He has declared against the consubstantiality and proper divinity of Christ as well as His co-eternity. "The English Church in the Eighteenth Century" by Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton

This fresh virtue consisted in the belief in a power consubstantially divine and human. "Myth and Science" by Tito Vignoli

Thence came Macedonius, who denied the Godhead of the Holy Spirit, consubstantial with the Father and the Son. "The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI" by Thomas W. (Thomas William) Allies

At last he was God consubstantial with God. "Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers" by Charles Bradlaugh, A. Collins, and J. Watts

The Christology that makes Christ Jesus consubstantial with God and with man satisfies man's deep-felt need. "Monophysitism Past and Present" by A. A. Luce