[ad. med.L. concomitāntia: see prec. and -ANCY.]
1. The fact, condition, or quality of being concomitant, or of accompanying each other.
a. 1617. Bayne, On Eph. (1658), 42. A concomitancie of faith in the person chosen.
1691–8. Norris, Pract. Disc. (1711), III. 16. Can we argue from the Concomitancy of one thing with another to the Causal Dependance of one thing upon another?
a. 1703. Burkitt, On N. T., Rom. viii. 17. Three things are implied … 1st Conformity: we shall be like him in glory: 2nd Concomitancy: we shall accompany him, and be present with him in glory.
1888. E. V. Neale, in Co-operative News, 26 May, 489. The concomitancy here of grinding poverty with enormous wealth.
† b. concr. An accompaniment. Obs.
1631. R. Byfield, Doctr. Sabb., 88. Every adjunct that is a visible concomitancy is a signe of the subject present.
1656. Trapp, Comm. 1 Cor. xv. 37. Sin is only rotted with its concomitancies.
1860. Gen. P. Thompson, Audi Alt., III. cxvii. 54. All the concomitancies which are apt to grow up.
2. Theol. = CONCOMITANCE 2.
1563–87. Foxe, A. & M. (1684), III. 905. By concomitancy the flesh is never without Blood, nor blood without flesh.
1654. Jer. Taylor, Real Pres., 31. Their new whimsie of concomitancy.
1747. Carte, Hist. Eng., I. 378. The denying of the cup in the eucharist to the laiety, in consequence of the doctrine of concomitancy, a scholastic … novelty.
