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impanation

American  
[im-puh-ney-shuhn] / ˌɪm pəˈneɪ ʃən /

noun

Theology.
  1. the doctrine that the body and blood of Christ are in the bread and wine after consecration.


impanation British  
/ ˌɪmpæˈneɪʃən /

noun

  1. Christianity the embodiment of Christ in the consecrated bread and wine of the Eucharist

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Etymology

Origin of impanation

1540–50; < Medieval Latin impanātiōn- (stem of impanātiō ), equivalent to Latin im- im- 1 + pan ( is ) bread + -ātiōn- -ation

Example Sentences

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It maintains that this presence of the body and blood of Christ, though real, is neither an impanation nor a companation, neither a local inclusion nor a mixture of the two substances, but illocal and transcendent.

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This genuinely Lutheran doctrine it was that also David Henkel had been preaching, and which his opponents who charged him with Roman aberrations called transubstantiation, impanation, or consubstantiation.

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This is what they called impanation, invination, consubstantiation.

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They reject, in truth, the dogma of Transubstantiation, which they believe to be without foundation in the Text; neither do they approve that of Consubstantiation or of Impanation, which one could only impute to them if one were ill-informed on their opinion.

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In the mean time there was interminable discussion respecting the nature of this "real presence," respecting transubstantiation and consubstantiation and impanation, respecting the actual presence of the body and blood of Christ under the appearance of the bread and wine, or the presence of the body and blood together with the bread and wine.

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