transubstantiate (transubstanshiat)

t.; pret. and pp. transubstantiated, ppr. transubstantiating. [ It. transustanziare, trasustanziare = Sp. transustanciar = Pg.tran ubstanciar = Pr. tran ustanciar = F. trans sub stan tier ), change into another substance, IMG:content-0759.png:[blocks in formation] Memory and imagination [in Dante] transubstantiated the woman of flesh and blood into a holy ideal. Lowell , Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 26. 2. Specifically, in theol., to change from bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ: said of the elements in the eucharist. See transubstantiation. Expounding "This is my body," that is to say, this is converted and turned into my body, and this bread is tran substantiated into my body. Tyndale, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (ed. Parker Soc.), p. 244. There can be little doubt that Queen Elizabeth was a believer in a real, but not in a transubstantiated presence. Ellis's Letters, p. 269, note.