Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To unite or become united in one common substance, nature, or essence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To unite in one common substance or nature, or regard as so united.
- To profess the doctrine of consubstantiation.
- Same as
consubstantial .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Partaking of the same substance; united; consubstantial.
- intransitive verb To profess or belive the doctrine of consubstantion.
- transitive verb rare To cause to unite, or to regard as united, in one common substance or nature.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Partaking of the same
substance ;consubstantial .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb become united in substance
- verb unite in one common substance
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Examples
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The seventh, to names that signify nothing, but are taken up and learned by rote from the Schools, as hypostatical, transubstantiate, consubstantiate, eternal-now, and the like canting of Schoolmen.
Leviathan 2007
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The seventh to names that signify nothing, but are taken up and learned by rote from the schools, as hypostatical, transubstantiate, consubstantiate, eternal-now, and the like canting of schoolmen.
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The word of God is then like to be done, when there is so dear a love to it; and the soul so taketh complacency in it, and unites to it, that it becomes as it were consubstantiate with the soul itself.
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822
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The seventh, to names that signify nothing, but are taken up and learned by rote from the Schools, as hypostatical, transubstantiate, consubstantiate, eternal-now, and the like canting of Schoolmen.
Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651
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Or-remembering a past in which I imagined a future from which I might remember that past-and so attempting to consubstantiate the process of time itself in a single act of awareness.
Serendip's Exchange Paul Grobstein 2010
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