transubstantiation
[,trænsəb,stænʃɪ'eʃən]
- n. 变质；改变；圣餐变体论
英英释义
- 1. the Roman Catholic doctrine that the whole substance of the bread and the wine changes into the substance of the body and blood of Christ when consecrated in the Eucharist
- 2. an act that changes the form or character or substance of something
中文词源
transubstantiation 变体，变体论
trans-,转移，转变，substance,物质，实体。用于指基督教祝圣仪式中面包和葡萄酒经祝圣变 成基督的体血，只留下面饼的外形。
英文词源
- transubstantiation (n.)
- late 14c., "change of one substance to another," from Medieval Latin trans(s)ubstantiationem (nominative trans(s)ubstantio), noun of action from trans(s)ubstantiare "to change from one substance into another," from Latin trans- "across" (see trans-) + substantiare "to substantiate," from substania "substance" (see substance). Ecclesiastical sense in reference to the Eucharist first recorded 1530s.