transubstantiationn.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum ix. xxxi. (MS. Add. 27944) lf. 129 Þanne þe cene day is day of reconciliacioun, of transubstanciacioun, of consacracioun, and of sacringe, of halewinge of oynement.

1477 Norton Ord. Alch. v, in Ashm. (1652) 86 Whereby of Mettalls is made transmutation, Not only in Colour, but transubstantiation.

1574 T. Newton tr. G. Gratarolo Direct. Health Magistrates & Studentes 23 Avicen sayeth that fleash is a meate comfortynge the body and of meere transubstantiation and conversion into bloud.

1594 H. Plat Jewell House 65 The Vintners practising..sometimes euen real transubstantiations, of white wine into Claret.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iv. xlv. 361 The Gentiles..might excuse their Idolatry, by pretending..a transubstantiation of their Wood, and Stone into God Almighty.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. i. 34 We look upon..the change of a substance from one species into another as a transubstantiation.

1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table xi. 362 It is no longer a wax doll for her, but has undergone a transubstantiation quite as real as that of the Eucharist.

1533 W. Tyndale Souper of Lorde C iij b S. Thomas theyr owne doctoure that made theyr transsubstanciacion confessethe that some there were that sayed that Christe dyd fyrste consecrate wyth other wordes, ere he nowe reachyng the bread to his disciple sayed, This is my bodie.

a1536 W. Tyndale Briefe Declar. Sacraments (?1548) D iv As concernyng the transsubstanciatyon I thinke that such a speche was among the olde doctours though they that came after vnderstode them amysse.

1558 Bp. T. Watson Holsome Doctr. Seuen Sacramentes viii. f. xlv The..church..did..well..when it inuented the worde of Transubstantiation, to expresse the olde truthe,..that the former substaunces of breade and wine be conuerted and chaunged into the body and bloud of Chryste.

1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 73 Transubstantiation is not so olde as Damascene, neither was it receyued in the Greeke Church, neither is it at this daye.

1635 E. Pagitt Christianographie 55 The word Transubstantiation is..first mentioned by Roger Hovenden, who flourished An. 1204.

1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity xv. 52 That Mysterious conceit of Transsubstantiation and the Idolatry thereon depending.

1678 Act 30 Chas. II. Stat. ii. §3 Such Peer or Member shall..audibly repeat this Declaration following. ‘I A. B. do..testify and declare, That I do believe that in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper there is not any Transubstantiation of the Elements of Bread and Wine into the Body and Blood of Christ at or after the Consecration thereof’.

1715 R. Bentley Serm. Popery 21 By slow degrees Transubstantiation was enacted into an Article of Faith.

1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. (new ed.) I. 83 As transubstantiation had not yet [11th c.] been established by the papal authority, it..formed no part of the public system of the Anglo Saxon church.

1901 C. Gore Body of Christ ii. §3. 118 The use..of the distinction of substance and accidents for the purpose of assisting the doctrine of transubstantiation was already familiar to Berengar,..he combats the proposed use of it, denying that the accidents can exist apart from their substance or ‘subject’, or apart from that of which they are attributes.

1901 B. J. Kidd 39 Articles II. 230–1 It was a crude attempt to secure some real meaning to Our Lord's Words of Institution by the doctrine of a physical transubstantiation or change in the material elements. But the Schoolmen now came forward with a subtler defence... Hence the doctrine of a metaphysical transubstantiation was adopted [by the Realists].

1884 Notes & Queries 23 Feb. 149/2 Dr. Samuel Pegge explained it [‘please the pigs’] by ‘An't please the pyx’,..and so making it equivalent to Deo volente in the minds of transubstantiationalists.

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1839) IV. 192 The Consubstantiationist, or the Transubstantiationist.

1839 J. Rogers Antipopopriestian vi. ii. 219 What Bedlam..contains madmen madder than the mad transubstantiationite?