Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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transmutation | Yes | No | No | No |
transubstantiation | Yes | No | No | No |
transmutation (noun) | transubstantiation (noun) |
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an act that changes the form or character or substance of something | an act that changes the form or character or substance of something |
a qualitative change | 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 |
(physics) the change of one chemical element into another (as by nuclear decay or radioactive bombardment) |