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Concomitancy

Concomitance \Con*com"i*tance\, Concomitancy \Con*com"i*tan*cy\, n. [Cf. F. concomitance, fr. LL. concomitantia.]

  1. The state of accompanying; accompaniment.

    The secondary action subsisteth not alone, but in concomitancy with the other.
    --Sir T. Browne.

  2. (R.C.Ch.) The doctrine of the existence of the entire body of Christ in the eucharist, under each element, so that the body and blood are both received by communicating in one kind only.

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concomitancy

n. 1 The condition of being concomitant 2 concomitance

Usage examples of "concomitancy".

This law of reproduction, however, presupposes that the phenomena themselves are really subject to such a rule, and that there is in the variety of these representations a sequence and concomitancy subject to certain rules.