English Explanatory Dictionary

transubstantiate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To change one substance into another; to transmute.
  2. To change the bread and wine of the Eucharist into the body and blood of Jesus.

Word forms

transubstantiate transubstantiates transubstantiating transubstantiated

Etymology

From tran- + substantiate.

Related words

transubstantiation
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