homoiousianadj.n.
/hɒmɔɪˈaʊsɪən//hɒmɔɪˈuːsɪən/ Theology.
A. adj.
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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 branch B. (Distinguished from heteroousian and homoousian.)
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homoiousian1683
Semi-Arian1781
Lucianic1882
1683 W. Cave Ecclesiastici 167 The Synod was divided into two principal Factions, the one of the Semiarian or Homoiousian Party,..the other of the Heterousians.
1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 175 As important and difficult as the homoousian and homoiousian controversy.
1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. II. 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.
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Semi-Arian1607
Lucianist1728
homoiousian1732
Collucianist1753
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron II. vii. xii. 158 What was the Intention of those venerable Fathers the Homoousians and the Homoiousians?
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxi. 257 The profane of every age have derided the furious contests which the difference of a single diphthong excited between the Homoousians and the Homoiousians.
1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 333 Probably since the era of the homöousian and the homoiousian so great a difference has not turned on a single syllable.
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