Obs. or arch. Also 5–7 transs-. (ad. med.L. tran(s)substāntiātus, pa. pple. of tran(s)substāntiāre: see next.] Transubstantiated. (Mostly const. as pa. pple.)
c. 1450. Mirour Saluacioun, 1886. Be the preest is brede to fflesshe Transsubstanciate.
a. 1536. Tindale, Declar. Sacram., C vij. [They say] the breade and wyne are changed, turned, altered and transsubstancyat in to the very body and bloud of Chryste.
1550. Cranmer, Defence, 30. Yt holdeth, that breade is transubstantiate or tourned into the bodye, and wyne into the bloudde.
1571. Fortescue, Forest, 43. Sutche mercilesse and transubstantiate monsters.
1598. Dallington, Meth. Trav., B iij. He had transubstantiate this fat Fowle into fish.
1678. R. Barclay, Apol. Quakers, xiii. § 5. 459. The Bread, and … the Wine … which they say is Consecrate and Transubstantiate into the very Body of Christ.
1848. Kingsley, Saint’s Trag., I. ii. 194. To find the canvas warm with life, and matter A moment transubstantiate to heaven.
