Con`sub*stan`ti*a"tion (?; 106), n.
1. An identity or union of
substance.
2. (Theol.) The actual,
substantial presence of the body of Christ with the bread and
wine of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; impanation; --
opposed to transubstantiation.
☞ This view, held by Luther himself, was called
consubstantiation by non Lutheran writers in
contradistinction to transsubstantiation, the Catholic view.