The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consubstantial \Con`sub*stan"tial\, a. [L. consubstantialis; con- + substantialis: cf. F. consubstantiel. See Substantial.] Of the same kind or nature; having the same substance or essence; coessential.
Christ Jesus . . . coeternal and consubstantial with
the Father and with the Holy Ghost.
--Foxe.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Of the same substance or essence.
WordNet
adj. regarded as the same in substance or essence (as of the three persons of the Trinity)
Usage examples of "consubstantial".
A letter was publicly read, and ignominiously torn, in which their patron, Eusebius of Nicomedia, ingenuously confessed, that the admission of the Homoousion, or Consubstantial, a word already familiar to the Platonists, was incompatible with the principles of their theological system.
He gave the Lord all sorts of opportunities, closed his eyes on the supposition that Little Lord Jesus, afraid that his first movements might be awkward, would be more likely to begin if no one were looking, but finally, after the third Credo, after Father, Creator of Heaven and Earth of things visible and invisible, and the only begotten Son, begotten not made by Him, true Son of true Father, consubstantial with Him, through Him, who for us men and our salvation, descended from Heaven, became incarnate, was made man, was buried, rose again, sitteth at the hand of the Father, the dead, no end, I believe in, together with the Father, spoke by, believe in the one Holy, Catholic, and.