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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὁμοιούσιος (homoioúsios), from ὅμοιος (hómoios, “like, similar”) + οὐσίᾱ (ousíā, “essence”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
homoiousian (not comparable)
- Having a similar but not identical essence, especially with reference to the first and second persons of the Trinity.
- Coordinate term: homoousian
Derived terms
Noun
homoiousian (plural homoiousians)
- (historical) One of the Semi-Arians of the 4th century who held that the Son was of like, but not the same, essence or substance with the Father.
- Coordinate term: homoousian
1781, Edward Gibbon, chapter XXI, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume II, London: W Strahan; and T Cadell, , →OCLC, page 257:The Greek word, which was chosen to express this mysterious resemblance, bears so close an affinity to the orthodox symbol, that the profane of every age have derided the furious contests which the difference of a single diphthong excited between the Homoousians and the Homoiousians.
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