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† Synusiast Obs.
Also syno(u)siast.
[ad. mod.L. synūsiasta, ad. Gr. συνουσιαστής, f. σύν syn-1 + οὐσία being, substance. Cf. Metusiast.]
a. An adherent of a sect which held that in Jesus Christ there was a commingling of the divine substance and the substance of human flesh.
b. A believer in consubstantiation.
1585–7T. Rogers 39 Art. xxviii. §4. (1625) 176 The Synusiastes, or Vbiquitaries, which think the Body of Christ is so present in the Supper, as his said Body with bread and Wine,..of all, and euery communicant, is eaten corporally. 1674Hickman Quinquart. Hist. Ep. (ed. 2) a 5 b, Convince a Protestant, that any one place of Scripture must needs be so understood as to assert Consubstantiation, he becomes a Synousiast forthwith. 1728Chambers Cycl., Synusiasts, or Synosiasts, a Sect of Hereticks, who maintain'd, that there was but one single Nature, and one single Substance in Jesus Christ. |