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Transubstantiation

noun
1.
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.
2.
An act that changes the form or character or substance of something.  Synonym: transmutation.





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"Transubstantiation" Quotes from Famous Books



... the poor, to the church, to education, to the campaign fund, yet says to his brother, "Thou fool," because he's followed off after a different political folly, or differs from him on the doctrine of transubstantiation, is not staggering about under a load of charity calculated to give him flat feet. The supreme test of a charitable mind is toleration for the opinions of others,—an admission that perchance we do not know it quite all. It is much easier to give a $5 bill to a beggar than ...
— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann


Words linked to "Transubstantiation" :   transubstantiate, conversion, theological doctrine, transmutation


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