[f. ppl. stem of med.L. consubstāntiāre to identify in substance, f. con- together + substāntia substance: see CONSUBSTANTIAL.]
1. trans. To unite in one common substance. spec. in Theol.: see CONSUBSTANTIATION.
1597. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., V. § 67. II. 357. They … are driuen either to Consubstantiate and incorporate Christ with elements sacramentall, or to Transubstantiate and change their substance into his.
1651. Wittie, trans. Primrose’s Pop. Err., III. ix. 162. It [Gold] is not easily consubstantiated with us, it cannot be overcome by our heat, nor doth it turne into bloud.
1683. Pordage, Myst. Div., 58. Neither Angels nor Saints are in this degree codeified and consubstantiated with the Father.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1852), II. 483. It is necessary that the priest should call down His very body crucified upon the cross into the bread, which must be transubstantiated thereinto, or consubstantiated therewith, so that Christ Himself may be really and corporally present in the elements.
1866. Whipple, Char. & Charac. Men, 74. This true rhetoric, in which thought is consubstantiated with things.
2. intr. To become united in substance.
1809–10. Coleridge, Friend (1865), 89. To make a vivid thought consubstantiate with the real object, and derive from it an outward perceptibility.
† 3. To hold the doctrine of consubstantiation.
1687. [see ppl. a.].
1715. A. A. Sykes, Innoc. Err., 10. The Lutherans consubstantiate.
Hence Consubstantiating ppl. a.
1687. Dryden, Hind & P., II. 454. The consubstantiating Church and Priest Refuse communion to the Calvinist.
