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Verb: transubstantiate  `tran-sub'stan-shee`eyt
  1. Change (the Eucharist bread and wine) into the body and blood of Christ
     
  2. Change or alter in form, appearance, or nature
    "transubstantiate one element into another"
    - transform, transmute

Derived forms: transubstantiating, transubstantiated, transubstantiates

See also: transubstantiation

Type of: alter, change, modify

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