[n. of action from med.L. transelementāre: see above, and quot. 1896.] The action or process of changing the elements of something.
1550. Hooper, Serm. Jonas, vi. S iij. The transelementacion and alteracion of the breade, no place of ye scripture commaundeth vs to beleue.
1624. F. White, Repl. Fisher, 421. In Transubstantiation the matter is destroyed, and the quantitie and accidents remaine, and in Transelementation the matter remaineth, and the essentiall and accidentall formes are altered.
1654. Jer. Taylor, Real Pres., xii, ¶ 5. The name of Transelementation, which Theophylact did use, seems to approach nearer to signify the propriety of this mysterie, because it signifies a change even of the first elements.
1706. trans. Dupin’s Eccl. Hist. 16th C., II. v. 53. If any one is offended with the new Term Transubstantiation, he will find that the Ancients used the terms Conversion, Transmutation, Transformation, Transelementation.
1855. Pusey, Doctr. Real Presence, Note Q. 223. Through what the transelementation of our nature from mortal to immortal takes place.
1896. R. F. Clarke, in Month, Feb., 207. A conversion (μεταβολὴ), a transmutation (μεταποίησις), a transelementation (στοιχείωσις).
