v. [ad. med.L. transelementāre, f. TRANS- + L. element-um ELEMENT.] trans. To change or transmute the elements of. Hence Transelementing vbl. sb.
1567. Jewel, Def. Apol. Ch. Eng., II. 238. For, as he saith, wee are Transelemented, or transnatured, and changed into Christe, euen so,… wee saie, The Breade is Transelemented, or changed into Christes Body.
1583. Foxe, A. & M., 1379/2. [Chrysostom] hath these same playne words, transelemented, and transformed.
1656. S. Holland, Zara (1719), 33. For that he remained for a time as one transelemented.
1812–29. Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1838), III. 94. That the body of our Lord was not transelemented or transnatured by the pleroma indwelling, we are positively assured by Scripture.
1855. Pusey, Doctr. Real Presence, Note Q. 186. The Divine gifts were amnesty of evils, removal of sin, transelementing of nature.
1878. Gladstone, Glean. (1879), III. 264. The old monotheism was (so to speak) transelemented, and caricatured, into the gorgeous but gross and motley religion of the Greek and Italian peninsulas.
So † Transelementate [med.L. transelementātus] ppl. a., transelemented; Transelementate v. = transelement.
1579. Fulke, Heskins’ Parl., 296. The bread & wine are transelementated into the vertue of his flesh & bloud.
1583. Foxe, A. & M., 1382/1. The bread (sayth [Chrysostom]) is transelementate, and transmuted into an other substaunce then it was before.
1899. W. R. Inge, Chr. Mysticism, vii. 257, note. The last-named [Theophylact] goes on to say that ‘we are in the same way transelementated into Christ.’
