consubstantiate
Americanverb (used without object)
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to profess the doctrine of consubstantiation.
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to become united in one common substance or nature.
verb (used with object)
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to unite in one common substance or nature.
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to regard as so united.
verb
Etymology
Origin of consubstantiate
First recorded in 1590–1600; from New Latin consubstantiātus, past participle of consubstantiāre, equivalent to con- prefix + substanti(a) “existence, corporeal existence” + -ātus past participle suffix; see origin at con-, substantiate
Example Sentences
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Milton's classical allusions, says Hartley Coleridge, are amalgamated and consubstantiated with his native thought.
From Milton by Pattison, Mark
The rhetoric of sentences however melodious, of aphorisms however pointed, of abstractions however true, cannot stand in the storm of affairs against this true rhetoric, in which thought is consubstantiated with things.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 07, May, 1858 by Various
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