▪ I. consubstantiate, v.
(kɒnsʌbˈstænʃɪeɪt)
[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 tr. 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 J. 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 consubstantiating ppl. a. below]. 1715 A. A. Sykes Innoc. Err. 10 The Lutherans consubstantiate. |
Hence consubˈstantiating ppl. a.
| 1687 Dryden Hind & P. ii. 454 The consubstantiating Church and Priest Refuse communion to the Calvinist. |
▪ II. consubˈstantiate, ppl. a.
[ad. med.L. consubstāntiāt-us, pa. pple. of consubstāntiāre: see prec. and -ate2.]
United or made one in substance.
| 1633 D. Rogers Treat. Sacraments i. To Rdr. 11 This Popish leaven of carnall Sacraments..sowred the first reformation with a consubstantiate Christ. a 1678 Feltham Serm. Luke xiv. 20 (T.) 'Tis no wonder that we must love her [a wife], that is thus consubstantiate with us. 1810 Southey Kehama xxiv. iv, Then did the Man-God reassume His unity, absorbing into one The consubstantiate shapes. |