| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Homoiousian |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Ho·moi·ou·si·an |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  h  moi-  s - n, -z- |
| NOUN: | A member of the Semi-Arian party in the fourth century a.d. that held that Jesus the Son and God the Father were of similar but not of the same substance. | | ETYMOLOGY: | From Greek homoiousios, of similar substance : homoio-, homeo- + ousi , substance (from ousa, feminine present participle of einai, to be; see es- in Appendix I).
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