transubstantiation
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Meanwhile, in Germany, Martin Luther had questioned the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation, the literal transformation of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
One significant element of this was the belief in transubstantiation: the idea that the wine and holy wafer literally transformed into the blood and body of Christ at the moment of consumption.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
Simultaneously, he suggests, those gadgets promise something greater, a kind of reverse transubstantiation that will put us in touch with the immaterial “philosophy” of Apple’s co-founder.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2018
Being a toast-and-egg man myself, my day begins with the transubstantiation of bread into its crustaceous cousin, toast.
From The Guardian ● May 24, 2016
One who held the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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