TRANSUBSTANTIATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does transubstantiate mean? 

• TRANSUBSTANTIATE (verb)
  The verb TRANSUBSTANTIATE has 2 senses:

1. change (the Eucharist bread and wine) into the body and blood of Christ

2. change or alter in form, appearance, or nature

  Familiarity information: TRANSUBSTANTIATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSUBSTANTIATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they transubstantiate    ... he / she / it transubstantiates   
Past simple: transubstantiated   
Past participle: transubstantiated   
-ing form: transubstantiating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Change (the Eucharist bread and wine) into the body and blood of Christ

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "transubstantiate" is one way to...):

transform; transmute; transubstantiate (change or alter in form, appearance, or nature)

Domain category:

Christian religion; Christianity (a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

transubstantiation (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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Change or alter in form, appearance, or nature

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

transform; transmute; transubstantiate

Context example:

transubstantiate one element into another

Hypernyms (to "transubstantiate" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "transubstantiate"):

transubstantiate (change (the Eucharist bread and wine) into the body and blood of Christ)

sorcerise; sorcerize (transform or change by means of sorcery)

stalinise; stalinize (transform in accordance with Stalin's policies)

destalinise; destalinize (counteract the effects and policies of Stalinism)

process; work; work on (shape, form, or improve a material)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

transubstantiation (an act that changes the form or character or substance of something)