coinstantaneous, a.
(kəʊɪnstənˈteɪniːəs)
[see co- 2.]
Occurring, taking place, or existing at the same instant; exactly simultaneous.
| 1768–74 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) I. 503 His acting and His complete knowledge of the manner most expedient to be followed in acting are co-instantaneous. 1794 G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. I. v. 188 Which of these is first we cannot say, for they seem co-instantaneous. 1823 Lamb Elia Ser. i. xxi. (1860) 166 A pun, and its recognitory laugh, must be co-instantaneous. 1860 Patmore Angel in H. iii. Faithful for Ever 228 A blinding flash, And close, co-instantaneous crash. |
Hence coinstantaˈneity, coinstanˈtaneously adv., coinstanˈtaneousness.
| 1807 Southey Espriella's Lett. (1814) III. 127 Coinstantaneously. 1809–10 Coleridge Friend (ed. 3) III. 251 They started up..like men out of an ambush..so co-instantaneously did they all obey the summons. 1818 ― Lit. Rem. (1847) I. 222 The co-instantaneity of the plan and the execution. 1845 Darwin Voy. Nat. ix. (1873) 202 Sometimes all moved together coinstantaneously. 1848 Hampden Bampt. Lect. (ed. 3) 124 Notions of..priority and posteriority, co-instantaneousness, consecutiveness. |