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impanation |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Impanation \Im"pa*na"tion\, n. [Cf. F. impanation. See {Impanate}, a.] (Eccl.) Embodiment in bread; the supposed real presence and union of Christ's material body and blood with the substance of the elements of the eucharist without a change in their nature; -- distinguished from transubstantiation, which supposes a miraculous change of the substance of the elements. It is akin to consubstantiation.
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