Associations to the word «Transubstantiation»

Wiktionary

TRANSUBSTANTIATION, noun. Conversion of one substance into another.
TRANSUBSTANTIATION, noun. (Christianity) (in Roman Catholic dogma) The doctrine holding that the bread and wine of the Eucharist are transformed into the body and blood of Jesus.

Dictionary definition

TRANSUBSTANTIATION, 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.
TRANSUBSTANTIATION, noun. An act that changes the form or character or substance of something.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats