Consubstantial

Quick meaning: Consubstantial is an adjective meaning Of the same substance or essence.

Meaning

Of the same substance or essence.

Example Sentences

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[…].

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.

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.

Synonyms for consubstantial

Depending on context, synonyms include coessential, homoousian.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include consubstantiate, coessential, homoousian, tantamount, consignificant, akin.

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