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transubstantiation Definition


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transubstantiation
noun
    1. The act or process of changing, or changing something, into something else.
    2a. Christianity.
      Especially in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches: the conversion of the Eucharistic bread and wine, after they have been consecrated, into the body and blood of Christ, although there is no outward change in their appearance;
    2b. Christianity.
      Especially in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches: the doctrine which states that this happens. Compare consubstantiation.
Derivative: transubstantiationalist
noun
    Etymology: 14c; from trans- sense 4.



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