Also transs-. [f. ppl. stem of med.L. tran(s)substāntiāre (Du Cange), f. TRANS- + substāntia SUBSTANCE Cf. F. transsubstantier (14th c. in Godef., Compl.). App. first used in pa. pple.: cf. prec.] trans. To change from one substance into another; to transform, transmute.
1584. R. Scot, Discov. Witchcr., III. ii. (1886), 45. She [a witch] confesseth that she transubstantiateth hir selfe.
1615. W. Lawson, Country Housew. Gard. (1626), 19. The sap … is consolidated and transubstantiated into the substance of the tree.
1670. Pettus, Fodinæ Reg., 44. The Philosophers stone … which would … transubstantiate other Metals into … Gold and Silver.
a. 1711. Ken, Hymns Evang., Poet. Wks. 1721, I. 98. He Water transubstantiated to Wine.
1870. Huxley, Lay Serm. (1877), 133. A singular inward laboratory, which I possess, will … convert the dead protoplasm into living protoplasm, and transubstantiate sheep [i.e., mutton] into man.
b. spec. in Theol.: see TRANSUBSTANTIATION 2.
[c. 1450: see prec.]
1533. Tindale, Supper of Lord, B iij. The wyne transsubstanciated into his bloud.
1651. C. Cartwright, Cert. Relig., I. 122. After Consecration there is no longer the substance of Bread, but that the Bread is transubstantiated, and turned into the substance of Christs Body.
a. 1774. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 483. It is necessary the priest should call down His very body crucified upon the cross into the bread; which must be transubstantiated thereinto, or consubstantiated therewith.
a. 1819. Geo. Hill, Lect. Div. (1821), III. 362. The practice of partaking in private of a small portion of what the priest has thus transubstantiated.
c. transf. and fig.
1641. R. Brooke, Eng. Episc., 7. So large that no one man … could sufficiently visit and over-see it except he get the Pope to Transubstantiate him also and so get a Vbiquitarian Body.
1675. Owen, Author. Script., Wks. 1851, VIII. 499. A private doctor of the Church of Rome may thus transubstantiate blasphemy into piety.
1759. Sterne, Tr. Shandy, II. ix. Never was a Dr. Slop so beluted, and so transubstantiated.
1884. J. Tait, Mind in Matter (1892), 125. Hints are transubstantiated into conceptions.
d. absol.
1579. Fulke, Heskins’ Parl., 67. Ye Papistes call consecrating, to change ye substances, or to transubstantiat.
1641. R. Brooke, Eng. Episc., II. iii. 74. A Preist can Consecrate, and by Consecration Transubstantiate.
1667. Milton, P. L., V. 438. With keen dispatch Of real hunger, and concoctive heate To transubstantiate.
e. intr. for pass. To become transubstantiated.
1851. W. Anderson, Exposure Popery (1878), 84. If the cake be not genuine in respect of wheaten flour, and if the wine have been made of immature grapes, they will not transubstantiate.
Hence Transubstantiated ppl. a.; Transubstantiating vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1550. Bale, Apol., 63. Those *transubstanciated Goddes, were knowne for no Goddes.
1654. Jer. Taylor, Real Pres., 47. The spiritual eating of him … may be done without their Transubstantiated flesh.
1718. T. Chamberlayne, Relig. Philos. (1730), I. ii. § 5. A metamorphosed or transubstantiated Earth.
1849. Sir J. Stephen, Eccl. Biog. (1850), I. 82. His faltering lips had closed on the transubstantiated elements.
1586. Hooker, Serm. Justif., etc. § 11. As *transubstantiating of sacramental elements in the Eucharist.
1800. W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., X. 319. Scarcely marvellous enough for his *transubstantiating fancy.
