homoiousian

Definitions

adjective having a similar but not identical essence, especially with reference to the first and second persons of the Trinity

Ecclesiastical Latin homoeusius, from Greek ὁμοιουσιος, from ὁμοιος ‘like, similar’ + ουσια ‘essence’.

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Basil's conciliation of the 'homoiousian' clergy is one of the clearly evidenced themes of his ministry.

The Creed and the Eucharist in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität, Bonn 2004
There arose, on the one hand, an extreme Arian party and, on the other, a homoiousian party which approximated closely to the Athanasian position but feared the Nicene terminology.

A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905
What is novel in it is that it represents the fading of pure polytheism and the engrafting, upon a polytheistic stock, of a speculative homoiousian tendency soon to bud out as philosophic pantheism.

The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
He does not flippantly ridicule the homoousian and the homoiousian as mere words, but the expression and exponent of profound theological distinctions, as every theologian knows them to be.

Beacon Lights of History John Lord 1852