subsistencyn.

1577 M. Hanmer tr. Socrates Scholasticus ii. xxxii, in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. 291 Thenceforth there should be no mention made of the substance or subsistencie of God.

1592 tr. F. Du Jon Apocalypsis i. 4 This Spirit is one in person according to his subsistencie.

a1624 R. Crakanthorpe Vigilius Dormitans (1631) xii. 162 [Theodoret] addeth, that it is pious to confesse them both to be one Person, one Sonne, one Christ, and withall not amisse to call them duas subsistentias, sive Naturas, two distinct subsistencies or Natures united.

1652 E. Benlowes Theophila sig. A5 One Essence, Three Subsistencies.

1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. v. 240 The second of those three subsistencies which the Catholic Faith teaches us to believe and adore in the one undivided essence of God.

1793 S. Hopkins Syst. of Doctr. I. i. iii. 97 This infinite being exists in such a manner, as to be three distinct subsistencies or persons, and yet but one God.

1878 J. Cook Lect. Orthodoxy ii. 58 This idea of personality, as the word is understood on the street and in the parlor, does not belong to the idea of the three subsistencies in the Trinity.

2010 M. Jones Why Heaven kissed Earth v. 109 The father, as the fountain of the other two subsistencies, begins the work.

a1628 F. Greville Mustapha iii, in Certaine Wks. (1633) Chorus 127 A Minute which doth her subsistence tye; Subsistencies which, in not being, be.

1641 R. Greville Nature of Truth ii. 6 We must not in Metaphysicall Beings expect Physicall subsistencies.

1652 E. Benlowes Theophila 17 Eternal Principle of all Substances, essential Being of all Subsistencies.

1665 J. Glanvill Scepsis Scientifica iii. 11 We know as little how the union is dissolved, that is the chain of the so differing subsistencies that compound us, as how it first commenced.

1735 Bibliotheca Biblica V. vii. 151 The Canaanites..were a People entirely given up to every kind of Impiety,..worshipping..Cœlestial and Sublunary Subsistencies.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. i. xi. 178 The ancients holding the eternity of forms and ideas supposed them subsistencies inexisting within the divine Mind.

1855 Southern Presbyterian Rev. Apr. 553 In Greek,..no scholar would contend, that because the verb is of the singular number, the noun does not actually express a plurality of subsistencies.

1976 M. C. Miller in A. Marsoobian et al. Nature's Perspectives (1991) ii. 101 There have been references to ‘its’ as if there were frozen entities—existences or subsistencies which are characterizable in and of themselves.

1628 T. Spencer Art of Logick 17 A first, or individuall substance, may be taken two wayes: one way, for every thing that hath a substance; another way, for a compleat subsistency, in the nature of any species.

1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. M^v Nor of well being, nor subsistency Of our poore souls, when they do hence depart, Can any be assur'd.

1682 tr. T. Erastus Treat. Excommun. 40 Whenever Christ made any new Institution, he omitted nothing that was requisite to its being and subsistency.

1747 W. Stith Hist. Virginia iii. 112 His Adventures gave Life and Subsistency to the Colony, and his Loss was their Ruin and Destruction.