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The actual, substantial presence of the body of Christ with the bread and wine of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; impanation; -- opposed to transubstantiation.

Unsubstantial; not real or strong. "Insubstantial pageant." [R.] Shak.

Unsubstantiality; unreality. [R.]

More than substantial; spiritual. "The heavenly supersubstantial bread." Jer. Taylor.

To change into another substance. [R.] The spider love which transubstantiates all, And can convert manna to gall. Donne.

wine in the Mass is converted into the body and blood of Christ; -- distinguished from consubstantiation, and impanation.

One who maintains the doctrine of transubstantiation. Barrow.

Lacking in matter or substance; visionary; chimerical.

To make unsubstantial. [R.]

A divesting of substantiality.

In process of; in the act of; into; to; -- used with verbal substantives in -ing which begin with a consonant. This is a shortened form of the preposition an (which was used before the vowel sound); as in a hunting, a building, a begging. "Jacob, when he was a dying" Heb. xi. 21. "We'll a birding together." " It was a…

One who held the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation.

Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an word sentence.

Consisting of air; resembling, or partaking of the nature of air. Hence: Unsubstantial; unreal.

Symbolically: Something unsubstantial, light, or volatile. "Charm ache with air." Shak. He was still all air and fire. Macaulay . [Air and fire being the finer and quicker elements as opposed to earth and water.]

Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike. "An airy spirit." Shak.

That which alternates with something else; vicissitude. [R.] Grateful alternates of substantial. Prior.

Used without the article; as, an anarthrous substantive.

The present indicative plural of the substantive verb to be; but etymologically a different word from be, or was. Am, art, are, and is, all come from the root as.

The second person singular, indicative mode, present tense, of the substantive verb Be; but formed after the analogy of the plural are, with the ending -t, as in thou shalt, wilt, orig. an ending of the second person sing. pret. Cf. Be. Now used only in solemn or poetical style.