v. Obs. rare. [f. late L. transcorporāre (a. 200 Irenæus): see -ATE3, and cf. med.L. transcorporātus (Du Cange).]

1

  1.  trans. To change into a different body or substance; to transubstantiate.

2

1570.  Foxe, A. & M. (ed. 2), 1314/1. Notwithstandyng that ye substance of bread and wyne was nowe banished out of the Sacrament, and vtterly transcorporated into the substance of Christes very body and bloud: yet was not this body eleuated … nor adored … till the dayes of Pope Honorius the 3.

3

  2.  intr. To migrate from one body to another; to transmigrate. Hence † Transcorporating ppl. a., holding the doctrine of transmigration.

4

  Cf. TRANSINCORPORATION, and med.L. transcorporatio.

5

1658.  Sir T. Browne, Hydriot., iv. 34. The Pythagorians and transcorporating Philosophers, who were to be often buried, held great care of their enterrment.

6