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The act of substantiating or proving; evidence; proof.

h the bread and wine of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; impanation; -- opposed to transubstantiation.

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

A divesting of substantiality.

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

The doctrine of consubstantiation.

One who believes in consubstantiation. Barrow.

the elements of the eucharist without a change in their nature; -- distinguished from transubstantiation, which supposes a miraculous change of the substance of the elements. It is akin to consubstantiation.

ersion of the substance of the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ; transubstantiation. In other churches there is a belief in a form of real presence, not however in the sense of transubstantiation. -- Real servitude, called also Predial servitude (Civil Law), a burden imposed upon one estate in fav…

lso, in a more restricted sense, of those who separated from Luther on the doctrine of consubstantiation, etc., and carried the Reformation, as they claimed, to a higher point. The Protestant churches founded by them in Switzerland, France, Holland, and part of Germany, were called the Reformed churches. The town was o…

, an act of the English Parliament prescribing a form of oath and declaration against transubstantiation, which all officers, civil and military, were formerly obliged to take within six months after their admission to office. They were obliged also to receive the sacrament according to the usage of the Church of Engla…

Transubstantiation. [Obs.]

One who maintains the doctrine of transubstantiation. Barrow.