- Present participle of transubstantiate.
Variant of transubstantiate
transitive verbtransubstantiated, transubstantiating
- to change from one substance into another; transmute; transform
- R.C.Ch., Eastern Orthodox Ch. to cause (bread and wine) to undergo transubstantiation
Origin of transubstantiate; from Ecclesiastical Medieval Latin transubstantiatus, past participle of transubstantiare ; from Classical Latin trans-, trans- + substantia, substance