Obs. [agent-n. in L. form, from med.L. transubstāntiāre or TRANSUBSTANTIATE: see -OR. Cf. F. transsubstantiateur (16th c. in Godef., Compl.).] One who holds the doctrine of transubstantiation; a transubstantialist.

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a. 1555.  Ridley, Declar. Lord’s Supper (1556), 53 b. Some amonge the transubstantiators … walke soe wilely and soe warely betwixte these ij … opinions.

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1624.  Gataker, Transubst., 82. As these Transubstantiators … say that the Bread in the Eucharist looseth its owne nature.

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a. 1626.  W. Sclater, Exp. Rom. iv. (1650), 143. Our Transubstantiatours … delude the simple, perswading the reall presence of Christs body.

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1686.  H. More, Real Pres., ii. 12. These Transubstantiators have fallen into that very absurdity, that they seemed so much to abhor from.

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  So Transubstantiatory a. (rare–1), implying or tending to transubstantiation.

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1878.  E. Jenkins, Haverholme, 184. Transubstantiatory rather, is it not?

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