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CONSUBSTANTIATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The doctrine of the High Anglican Church that after the consecration of the Eucharist the substance of the body and blood of Christ coexists with the substance of the consecrated bread and wine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("consubstantiation" is a kind of...):
theological doctrine (the doctrine of a religious group)
Derivation:
consubstantial (regarded as the same in substance or essence (as of the three persons of the Trinity))
consubstantiate (unite in one common substance)
consubstantiate (become united in substance)