Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Occurrence or existence together or in connection with one another.
  • noun A concomitant.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being concomitant; a being together or in connection with another.
  • noun In Roman Catholic theology, the coexistence of the body and blood of Christ in the single eucharistic element of bread, so that those who partake of the consecrated host receive him in full. Also concomitation.
  • noun In mathematics, a relation between two sets of variables such that, when those of one set are replaced by certain functions of themselves, those of the other set are also replaced by certain determinate functions of themselves.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state of accompanying; accompaniment.
  • noun (R.C.Ch.) The doctrine of the existence of the entire body of Christ in the eucharist, under each element, so that the body and blood are both received by communicating in one kind only.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun occurrence or existence together or in connection with one another, co-existence
  • noun a concomitant

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun occurrence or existence together or in connection with one another

Etymologies

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First attested 1607, from French concomitant, from Latin concomitari ("accompany"), from con- ("together") + comitari ("to company"), from comes, comitis ("companion").

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Examples

  • This association between types of stretches and their ability to access and produce specific benefits is called a concomitance.

    The Genius of Flexibility Bob Cooley 2005

  • This association between types of stretches and their ability to access and produce specific benefits is called a concomitance.

    The Genius of Flexibility Bob Cooley 2005

  • Occasionalism (see CAUSE) i.e. the system which taught that the sacraments caused grace by a kind of concomitance, they being not real causes but the causae sine quibus non: their reception being merely the occasion of conferring grace.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • If, then, it be considered as a sacrament, it produces its effect in two ways: first of all directly through the power of the sacrament; secondly as by a kind of concomitance, as was said above regarding what is contained in the sacrament (Q. 76, AA.

    Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas

  • With this comes the language of interests - with Russia by enticing it, and with China by warning it of the concomitance between interests and stances that are fateful for the region.

    Raghida Dergham: Behind the Russian/Chinese Veto of Syrian Resolution at the UN Raghida Dergham 2011

  • MATANOSKI: You developed a chart on the concomitance of autism?

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

  • MATANOSKI: You developed a chart on the concomitance of autism?

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

  • MATANOSKI: You developed a chart on the concomitance of autism?

    The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

  • More of this will be addressed in the section on divine causation, but for now suffice it to say that God's causal role in the actions of finite substances at the very minimum is to pre-establish the concomitance or conjunction between “causes” and “effects,” without which God's aim of producing universal and maximum harmony

    Leibniz on Causation Bobro, Marc 2009

  • Murder is a statutory wrapping around a concomitance of two things: certain kinds of conduct (say actus reas and the judge will be impressed) and certain sorts of intent (or mens rea).

    July 2006 2006

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