transubstantiation

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tran·sub·stan·ti·a·tion

(trăn′səb-stăn′shē-ā′shən)

1. Conversion of one substance into another.

2. In many Christian churches, the doctrine holding that the bread and wine of the Eucharist are transformed into the body and blood of Jesus, although their appearances remain the same.

tran′sub·stan′ti·a′tion·al·ist n.

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transubstantiation

(ˌtrænsəbˌstænʃɪˈeɪʃən)

1. (Roman Catholic Church) (esp in Roman Catholic theology)

a. the doctrine that the whole substance of the bread and wine changes into the substance of the body and blood of Christ when consecrated in the Eucharist

b. the mystical process by which this is believed to take place during consecration. Compare consubstantiation

2. a substantial change; transmutation

ˌtransubˌstantiˈationalist n

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tran•sub•stan•ti•a•tion

(ˌtræn səbˌstæn ʃiˈeɪ ʃən)

n.

1. the changing of one substance into another.

2. (in the Eucharist) the conversion of the whole substance of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, only the appearance of bread and wine remaining.

transubstantiation

the doctrine that the consecrated elements of the communion only appear as bread and wine, for they have been converted into the whole substance of the body and blood of Christ. Cf. consubstantiation, receptionism, virtualism. — transubstantiationalist, n.

transubstantiation

noun

The process or result of changing from one appearance, state, or phase to another:

change, changeover, conversion, metamorphosis, mutation, shift, transfiguration, transformation, translation, transmogrification, transmutation.

Translations

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transustanziazione

пресуществление

transubstantiation

[ˈtrænsəbˌstænʃɪˈeɪʃən] N → transubstanciación f

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transubstantiation

n (Rel) → Wandlung f, → Transsubstantiation f (spec)

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transubstantiation

[ˈtrænsəbˌstænʃɪˈeɪʃ/ən] n (Rel) → transustanziazione f

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Almost Eternal: Painting on Stone and Material Innovation in Early Modern Europe

In 1947, Jackson Pollock made Full Fathom Five the title of one his most materially dense drip paintings, suggesting a kind of transubstantiation. The nails, tacks, and cigarette butts embedded in the canvas had been raised up into the visual field of high modernism.

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This leaves people who suffer from gluten intolerance little choice but to refrain from partaking in the occasion that observes doctrine of transubstantiation, according to which the Communion wafer and wine symbolizes the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ respectively.

Vatican Says No To Gluten-Free Wafers For Holy Communion

Roman Catholics believe bread and wine served at the Eucharist are converted into the body and blood of Christ through a process known as transubstantiation. Reported by BBC.

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These sculptures underlined the theology of Incarnation and Transubstantiation, and implicitly also the Resurrection.

The Cristos Yacentes of Gregorio Fernandez: Polychrome Sculptures of the Supine Christ in Seventeenth-Century Spain

The book focuses on the operations of disknowledge in several areas of human knowledge, ranging from transubstantiation, to Kabbalah, to human reproduction, to concepts of fictionality.

Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England

In addition to a careful examination of the primary text, George uses both John Tillotson's discussion of transubstantiation and Ludwig Wittgenstein's discussions of religion to elucidate Hume's arguments.

George, Alexander. The Everlasting Check: Hume on Miracles

I'm not sure how much of this wine goes through transubstantiation (you might have to google that) before it's consumed, but it's a fair drop.

Thank heavens for good wine.. WINE wih

When he was appointed commander of Virginia's military forces, George Washington was required to sign an anti-Catholic "test oath" disclaiming belief in such doctrines as transubstantiation, the changing of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ.

Noun	1.	transubstantiation - 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 theological doctrine - the doctrine of a religious group
	2.	transubstantiation - an act that changes the form or character or substance of something transmutation conversion - the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another