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Transubstantiation

//tɹænz.səbˈstæn.ʃiˌeɪ.ʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The doctrine holding that the bread and wine of the Eucharist are essentially transformed into the body and blood of Jesus. countable, uncountable

    "I was openly dismissive about transubstantiation, by which the host is consecrated, and according to Catholic doctrine, literally turns from mere bread into the body of Christ. “But all the atoms stay the same!” I would insist. “That makes no sense!”"

  2. 2
    an act that changes the form or character or substance of something wordnet
  3. 3
    Conversion of one substance into another. broadly, countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    the Roman Catholic doctrine that the whole substance of the bread and the wine changes into the substance of the body and blood of Christ when consecrated in the Eucharist wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin trānsubstantiātiō.

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