Word Meanings - TRANSUBSTANTIATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. (more info) 1. A change into another substance.

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• BLOODSUCKER
  Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an
• BLOODSHEDDER
  One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
• CHRISTIAN
  1. One who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe, in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ. The disciples were called Christians first
• CONVERTIBILITY
  The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
• BREADEN
  Made of bread.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• BLOODULF
  The European bullfinch.
• CHANGEFUL
  Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
• CHRISTEN
  1. To baptize and give a Christian name to. 2. To give a name; to denominate. "Christen the thing what you will." Bp. Burnet. 3. To Christianize. Jer. Taylor. 4. To use for the first time.
• BLOODROOT
  A plant , with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant
• ROMANY
  1. A gypsy.
• BREADBASKET
  The stomach. S. Foote.
• CHRISTIAN ERA
  The era in use in all Christian countries, which was intended to commence with the birth of Christ. The era as now established was first used by Dionysius Exiguus , who placed the birth of Christ on the 25th of December in the year of Rome 754,
• BREAD
  To spread. Ray.
• ROMANTICAL
  Romantic.
• ROMANISH
  Pertaining to Romanism.
• BREADFRUIT
  The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree. (more info) 1. The fruit of a tree found
• ROMANTICIST
  One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley.
• CHRISTLY
  Christlike. H. Bushnell.
• BREADTHWISE
  In the direction of the breadth.
• 'SBLOOD
  An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• ANTICHRISTIANISM; ANTICHRISTIANITY
  Opposition or contrariety to the Christian religion.
• INCONVERTED
  Not turned or changed about. Sir T. Browne.
• REEXCHANGE
  To exchange anew; to reverse .
• ELEUTHEROMANIAC
  Mad for freedom.
• RECONVERTIBLE
  Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.