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- noun Common misspelling of
transubstantiation .
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a d 400 (or whenever it was), and has in any case used the word transsubstantiation in the wrong sense …
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This is called "transsubstantiation," where the outward appearance is as it was, but now its essense is totally transformed.
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The doctrine of the transsubstantiation of bread and wine and of the Real Presence are truths of the Faith already evident in Scripture itself, and then confirmed by the Fathers of the Church.
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How do you say, um, dude, this Trinity thing — the virgin birth — transsubstantiation … ya know …
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How do you say, um, dude, this Trinity thing — the virgin birth — transsubstantiation … ya know …
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If the person with the cracker has no faith, there is no transsubstantiation.
It's. A. Fucking. Cracker. CC 2008
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According to one Kansas emigrant, “I have listened to most animated and profound discussions of the immortality of the soul, whether the Bible was inspired, forcordination, transsubstantiation … the doctrines of John Calvin, and the infallibility of the pope.”
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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"Car, disoit il, pour la transsubstantiation je ne suys poinct d'advis qu'il y ayt schisme en l'eglise."
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird
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Whether, granting that the function of the skin is purely protective, absorbent, excretive, and tactile, the circulation of the blood and all its mechanism would not correspond with the transsubstantiation of our Will, as the circulation of the nerve fluid corresponds to that of the Mind?
Louis Lambert Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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(Note I'm not even talking about whether you believe in transsubstantiation here - just whether you know that it's what the Church says is happening on the altar.)
NYT > Home Page By ROSS DOUTHAT 2010
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