† transˈcorporate, v. Obs. rare.
[f. late L. transcorporāre (a 200 Irenæus): see -ate3, and cf. med.L. transcorporātus (Du Cange).]
1. trans. To change into a different body or substance; to transubstantiate.
| 1570 Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 1314/1 Not withstandyng that y⊇ substance of bread and wyne was nowe banished out of the Sacrament, and vtterly transcorporated into the substance of Christes very body and bloud: yet was not this body eleuated..nor adored..till the dayes of Pope Honorius the 3. |
2. intr. To migrate from one body to another; to transmigrate. Hence † transˈcorporating ppl. a., holding the doctrine of transmigration.
Cf. transincorporation, and med.L. transcorporatio.
| 1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriot. iv. 34 The Pythagorians and transcorporating Philosophers, who were to be often buried, held great care of their enterrment. |