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homoiousian, a. and n. Theol.|hɒmɔɪˈaʊsɪən, -ˈuːsɪən|
[f. Gr. ὁµοιούσι-ος of like essence (f. ὅµοιος like, similar + οὐσία essence) + -an.]
A. adj.
a. Of like essence or substance.
b. Relating to or maintaining likeness (as distinct from identity and from difference) of substance between the Father and the Son: see B. (Distinguished from heteroousian and homoousian.)
1683W. Cave Ecclesiastici 167 The Synod was divided into two principal Factions, the one of the Semiarian or Homoiousian Party,..the other of the Heterousians. 1854Badham Halieut. 175 As important and difficult as the homoousian and homoiousian controversy. 1866Felton Anc. & Mod. Gr. II. ii. iv. 320 The questions..whether the Son was homoöusian with the Father; whether he was homoiousian [etc.]
B. n. (With capital initial.) One who held the Father and the Son, in the Godhead, to be of like, but not the same, essence or substance; a Semi-Arian.
1732Berkeley Alciphr. vii. §12 What was the Intention of those venerable Fathers the Homoousians and the Homoiousians? 1776[see homoousian B.]. 1876C. M. Davies Unorth. Lond. 333 Probably since the era of the homöousian and the homoiousian so great a difference has not turned on a single syllable. |