a. [See UNI- and PERSONAL a. Cf. F. unipersonnel (in sense 2), Pg. unipessonal.]
1. Consisting of a single person or individual.
c. 1810. Coleridge, in Lit. Rem. (1838), III. 220. If there be a functionary of divine institution, synodical or unipersonal, who with the name of the Church has the right [etc.].
b. Having, or existing as, one person.
Cf. TRI-PERSONAL a., and PERSON 7 a.
1869. Contemp. Rev., XII. 450. The God of the Bible is neither unipersonal nor tripersonal in that sense of person.
1901. R. C. Moberly, Atonement & Personality, viii. 172. But neither any one of them [sc. analogies], nor (still less) all together, go far towards enabling uni-personal man to enter into the consciousness of Tri-Personality.
2. Gram. Of a verb: = IMPERSONAL a. 1. rare.
1860. Worcester (citing Wells). [Hence in Webster (1864) and later Dicts.]
Hence Unipersonalist, a believer in the unipersonality of the Deity (1846 Worcester, citing Faber); Unipersonality, existence in one person.
1859. J. Martineau, Ess. & Addr. (1891), II. 389. If we set up as our essential a doctrine, like that of the Unipersonality of God. Ibid. (1884), in Life (1902), II. viii. 70.