transubstantiate

/tɹansəbstˈanʃɪˌeɪt/

/tɹænsəbstˈænʃɪˌeɪt/

[verb]

to transubstantiate

[VERB]

MAIN VERB

change or alter in form, appearance, or nature

synonyms : transform

transmute

to transubstantiate definition and meaning

change (the Eucharist bread and wine) into the body and blood of Christ

Examples

1. An object can transubstantiated sides of human nature greed callousness the desire to triumph as much as it can the best sides.

2. Or take this chair it too transubstantiate a set of important values straightforwardness, strength, honesty and elegance by getting closer to the chair we stand to become a little more like it which is an important piece of inner evolution.

3. But it is this behavioral model which is at the cold, cruel heart of neoliberal economics, and it is as morally corrosive as it is scientifically wrong because, if we accept at face value that humans are fundamentally selfish, and then we look around the world at all of the unambiguous prosperity in it, then it follows logically, then it must be true by definition, that billions of individual acts of selfishness magically transubstantiate into prosperity and the common good.

Nearby words

transporter

transportation system