impanation

Cognate of French impanation. From Latin impanatus, a form of the verb impanare (“to impanate”); from im- (“in”) + panis (“bread”).

impanation (uncountable)

1. (Christianity) The actual, substantial presence of the body of Christ with the bread and wine of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper — as opposed to transubstantiation.

• consubstantiation

• “impanation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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impanation f (plural impanations)

1. impanation

• “impanation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.