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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Transubstantiation  \Tran`sub*stan`ti*a"tion\,  n.  [LL. 
  transubstantiatio:  cf  F.  transsubstantiation.] 
  1.  A  change  into  another  substance. 
 
  2.  (R.  C.  Theol.)  The  doctrine  held  by  Roman  Catholics,  that 
  the  bread  and  wine  in  the  Mass  is  converted  into  the  body 
  and  blood  of  Christ;  --  distinguished  from 
  consubstantiation,  and  impanation. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  transubstantiation 
  n  1:  the  Roman  Catholic  doctrine  that  the  whole  substance  of  the 
  bread  and  the  wine  changes  into  the  substance  of  the 
  body  and  blood  of  Christ  when  consecrated  in  the 
  Eucharist 
  2:  an  act  that  changes  the  form  or  character  or  substance  of 
  something  [syn:  {transmutation}] 

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