† Synusiastn.
Obsolete.
1. 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.
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1728 E. Chambers 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.
2. A believer in consubstantiation.
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1587 T. Rogers Eng. Creede: 2nd Pt. 54 The Synusiasts..who thinke the bodie of Christ so is praesent in the supper, as his verie bodie with bread and wine, is eaten corporalie.
1673 H. Hickman Hist. Quinq-articularis Epist. sig. a4v Convince a Protestant that any one place of Scripture must needs be so understood as to assert Consubstantiation, he becomes a Synusiast forthwith.
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