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Definition of "impanation" []

  • The actual, substantial presence of the body of Christ with the bread and wine of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper — as opposed to transubstantiation. (noun)

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Use "impanation" in a sentence
  • "This is what they called impanation, invination, consubstantiation."
  • "Christ's Real Presence by a kind of impanation (Christum quodammodo impanari)."
  • "March, 1538, to the pastor Vitus Theodorus in Nuremberg, merely expresses his suspicion that Osiander held the doctrine of impanation."