transubstantial, a.
(trɑːnsəbˈstænʃəl, træn-)
[f. trans- 1 + L. substāntiāl-is, f. substantia substance: cf. consubstantial.]
a. Changed or changeable from one substance into another; of or pertaining to transubstantiation. b. Made of something beyond substance; non-material, incorporeal.
| 1567 Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 210 Gif God be transubstanciall In [= into] breid, with hoc est Corpus Meum. 1651 Biggs New Disp. ¶214 The transubstantial migration of the grapy juice of the papall Sacramentarians. 1892 E. C. Stedman in Century Mag. Apr. 821/1 The very stuff whereof the Muse fashions her transubstantial garments. |
Hence
transubˈstantialism, the theory or doctrine of transubstantiation;
transubˈstantialist, one who holds this doctrine;
transubˈstantialize v.,
† (
a)
trans. to change from one substance to another, to transubstantiate; (
b)
intr. to hold or maintain the doctrine of transubstantiation (whence
transubˌstantialiˈzation);
transubˈstantially adv., by change of substance, in the way of transubstantiation.
| 1842 G. S. Faber Prov. Lett. (1844) I. 183 The clause, through which Mr. Maitland would charge the Albigenses with acknowledged *Transubstantialism, could never have been uttered by themselves. |
| 1838 ― Inquiry 65 It is useful to let a Romanist himself exhibit the blasphemous heresy of the *Transubstantialists in all its naked deformity. 1850 Bp. E. H. Browne Exp. 39 Articles xxviii. i. (1874) 679 If there were no other alternative..we must perforce acknowledge, that they believed in a carnal presence, and were transubstantialists. For some presence they undoubtedly taught. |
| 1647 Trapp Comm. Matt. iii. 11 [The fire of the Spirit] spiritualizeth and *transubstantializeth us, as it were, into the same image from glory to glory. 1826 G. S. Faber Diffic. Romanism (1853) 246 Some..have rashly charged the Episcopal Church in Scotland with transubstantialising, because the ancient phrase occurs in her eucharistic liturgy. 1846 ― Lett. Tractar. Secess. 180 The old phraseology, which Dr. Moehler confidently adduces as proof positive that the Primitive Church transubstantialised from the very beginning. |
| 1826 ― Diffic. Romanism (1853) 100 Specimens of such phraseology, by way of demonstrating the *transubstantialisation of the Primitive Church. |
| 1577 tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 27 To expound the wordes of the Sacrament Sacramentally, and not *Transubstantially. 1579 Fulke Heskins' Parl. 428 Basil..beleeued the bread and wine to be made Christes body and bloud, he meaneth corporally and transubstantially. |