[ad. L. consubstantiālitās (Cassiodorus), f. consubstāntiālis: see -ITY. Used to render Gr. τὸ ὁμοούσιον, ὁμοουσιότης.] Identity of substance.
1616. Bullokar, Consubstantialitie, agreement in substance, the being of the same substance that another is of.
1651. trans. Bacon’s Life & Death, 13. Over great Affinity or Consubstantiality of the Nourishment to the Thing nourished.
1738–41. Warburton, Div. Legat., III. iv. (R.). The doctrine of the soul’s consubstantiality with the Deity.
b. esp. of the three Persons of the Trinity.
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 198 b. Here is no consubstancialite nor personage, which is in ye deite.
1558. Bp. Watson, Sev. Sacram., viii. 45. The … Counsel at Nyce … dyd inuente the worde of Consubstantialitie, to expresse the olde trueth that Christ was … of one and the same substance with the father.
1651. C. Cartwright, Cert. Relig., II. 7. Homousion, which the Orthodox Fathers used, to shew against the Arrians the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father.
1773. J. Allen, Serm. St. Mary’s Oxf., 17. His coequality, coeternity and consubstantiality with the Father.
1845. J. H. Newman, Ess. Developm., 11. There is also a consensus in the Ante-Nicene Church for the doctrines of our Lord’s Consubstantiality and Coeternity with the Father.
