Homoousian

American  

[hoh-moh-oo-see-uhn, -ou-, hom-oh-] / ˌhoʊ moʊˈu si ən, -ˈaʊ-, ˌhɒm oʊ- /

noun

1. a member of a 4th-century a.d. church party that maintained that the essence or substance of the Father and the Son is the same (Heteroousian ).

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adjective

1. of or relating to the Homoousians or their doctrine.

Homoousian British  

/ ˌhəʊməʊˈuːsɪən, -ˈaʊ-, ˌhɒm- /

noun

1. a Christian who believes that the Son is of the same substance as the Father Compare Homoiousian

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adjective

1. of or relating to the Homoousians

Other Word Forms

• Homoousianism noun

Etymology

Origin of Homoousian

1555–65; < Late Greek homooúsi ( os ) of the same substance ( Greek hom ( o )- homo- + ousí ( a ) substance, essence + -os adj. suffix) + -an

Example Sentences

Later witnesses speak of his fidelity to the homoousian during the Arian controversies.

From Project Gutenberg

The enmity of the Homoousian to the Homiousian was as bitter as that between Guelph and Ghibelline, as that of Capulet and Montague; and only the pen of a Swift could do justice to the brawls “Bred of an airy word.”

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Theological discussions at length became so general in Alexandria that some one has said that "Every washer-woman in the city was arguing the merits of homoousian and homoiousian in the streets."

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Accordingly, he had recourse to the following measures: he knew that Constantius was hated by all the people who held the homoousian faith and had driven them from the churches and had proscribed and exiled their bishops.

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Fifteen hundred years ago, in south-eastern Europe, men who held the Homoousian opinion of the Trinity were gathered in arms against the Homoiousians.

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