transelement, v.
(trɑːnsˈɛlɪmənt, træns-)
[ad. med.L. transelementāre, f. trans- + L. element-um element.]
trans. To change or transmute the elements of. Hence transˈelementing vbl. n.
| 1567 Jewel Def. Apol. Ch. Eng. ii. 238 For, as he saith, wee are Transelemented, or transnatured, and changed into Christe, euen so,..wee saie, The Breade is Transelemented, or changed into Christes Body. 1583 Foxe A. & M. 1379/2 [Chrysostom] hath these same playne words, trans⁓elemented, and transformed. 1656 S. Holland Zara (1719) 33 For that he remained for a time as one trans⁓elemented. 1812–29 Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 94 That the body of our Lord was not transelemented or transnatured by the pleroma indwelling, we are positively assured by Scripture. 1855 Pusey Doctr. Real Presence Note Q. 186 The Divine gifts were amnesty of evils, removal of sin, transelementing of nature. 1878 Gladstone Glean. (1879) III. 264 The old monotheism was (so to speak) transelemented, and caricatured, into the gorgeous but gross and motley religion of the Greek and Italian peninsulas. |
So † transeleˈmentate [med.L. transelementātus] ppl. a., transelemented; transeleˈmentate v. = transelement.
| 1579 Fulke Heskins' Parl. 296 The bread & wine are transelementated into the vertue of his flesh & bloud. 1583 Foxe A. & M. 1382/1 The bread (sayth [Chrysostom]) is transelementate, and transmuted into an other substaunce then it was before. 1899 W. R. Inge Chr. Mysticism vii. 257 note, The last-named [Theophylact] goes on to say that ‘we are in the same way transelementated into Christ’. |