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concomitance|kənˈkɒmɪtəns|
Also 6 -comitaunce, -comytaunce, 7 -commitance.
[ad. med.L. concomitāntia (whence also in 16th c. F.), f. concomitānt-em: see concomitant and -ance.]
1. The fact of being concomitant, or of accompanying each other; subsistence together; co-existence.
a1535More On the Passion Wks. 1335/2 By concomytaunce are there also both the father and the holye Goste. 1676Hale Contempl. i. 55 By accident, and by way of concomitance. 1834Fraser's Mag. IX. 696 The concomitance of voice and music. 1846Mill Logic iii. viii. §6 In inferring causation from concomitance of variations, the concomitance itself must be proved by the Method of Difference.
b. quasi-concr. An instance of this.
†c. concr. An accompaniment (obs.).
1652W. Hartley Inf. Baptism 3 Not ushered in with its proper ingredients and due concommitances. a1677Barrow Serm. (1683) II. xx. 289 Some advantageous circumstances and concomitances. 1861Q. Rev. CX. 381 The concomitances, or sequences, or causes and effects of nature, are not connected together by our experience in any such way.
2. Theol. The coexistence of the body and blood of Christ in each of the eucharistic elements (esp. in the bread).
a1535More On the Passion Wks. 1335/1 The bodye vnder the forme of bread immediately..and the bloude by concomitaunce. a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 127 They doe shamefull wrong vnto the Church, to father this new fangled word of Concomitance of it. 1660Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. ii. iii. ix. §27 Why the priest should be obliged to drink the chalice, and cannot be excused by concomitance..cannot easily be imagined. 1857P. Freeman Princ. Div. Service II. 79 That doctrine of ‘Concomitance’..on which the withdrawal from the Christian West of the Eucharistic Cup was professedly based or justified. 1880Littledale Plain Reasons xxviii. 77.
3. Math. Exact correspondence of functional transformation between two sets of variables: see concomitant B. 3. |