a. [f. TRANS- 1 + L. substāntiāl-is, f. substantia SUBSTANCE: cf. CONSUBSTANTIAL.] a. Changed or changeable from one substance into another; of or pertaining to transubstantiation. b. Made of something beyond substance; non-material, incorporeal.
1567. Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.), 210. Gir God be transubstanciall In [= into] breid, with hoc est Corpus Meum.
1651. Biggs, New Disp., ¶ 214. The transubstantial migration of the grapy juice of the papall Sacramentarians.
1892. E. C. Stedman, in Century Mag., April, 821/1. The very stuff whereof the Muse fashions her transubstantial garments.
Hence Transubstantialism, the theory or doctrine of transubstantiation; Transubstantialist, one who holds this doctrine; Transubstantialize v., † (a) trans. to change from one substance to another, to transubstantiate; (b) intr. to hold or maintain the doctrine of transubstantiation (whence Transubstantialization); Transubstantially adv., by change of substance, in the way of transubstantiation.
1842. G. S. Faber, Prov. Lett. (1844), I. 183. The clause, through which Mr. Maitland would charge the Albigenses with acknowledged *Transubstantialism, could never have been uttered by themselves. Ibid. (1838), Inquiry, 65. It is useful to let a Romanist himself exhibit the blasphemous heresy of the *Transubstantialists in all its naked deformity.
1850. Bp. E. H. Browne, Exp. 39 Articles, XXVIII. i. (1874), 679. If there were no other alternative … we must perforce acknowledge, that they believed in a carnal presence, and were transubstantialists. For some presence they undoubtedly taught.
1647. Trapp, Comm. Matt. iii. 11. [The fire of the Spirit] spiritualizeth and *transubstantializeth us, as it were, into the same image from glory to glory.
1826. G. S. Faber, Diffic. Romanism (1853), 246. Some … have rashly charged the Episcopal Church in Scotland with transubstantialising, because the ancient phrase occurs in her eucharistic liturgy. Ibid. (1846), Lett. Tractar. Secess., 180. The old phraseology, which Dr. Moehler confidently adduces as proof positive that the Primitive Church transubstantialised from the very beginning. Ibid. (1826), Diffic. Romanism (1853), 100. Specimens of such phraseology, by way of demonstrating the *transubstantialisation of the Primitive Church.
1577. trans. Bullinger’s Decades (1592), 27. To expound the wordes of the Sacrament Sacramentally, and not *Transubstantially.
1579. Fulke, Heskins’ Parl., 428. Basil … beleeued the bread and wine to be made Christes body and bloud, he meaneth corporally and transubstantially.
