transubstantiation

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun 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
noun an act that changes the form or character or substance of something

Borrowed from Medieval Latin trānsubstantiātiō.

I suppose Transubstantiation is one. — Apologia pro vita sua : $b being a history of his religious opinions, John Henry Newman
I do not enter on any discussion respecting Purgatory, or Transubstantiation, or the worship of the Virgin. — Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber : $b or, The influence of Romanism on trade, justice, and knowledge, J. A. (James Aitken) Wylie
"You do not believe in the transubstantiation of the body and blood of Christ into the bread and wine of the Sacrament?" — The Witch of Salem; or, Credulity Run Mad, John R. (John Roy) Musick

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