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SUBSTANTIAL
Belonging to substance rather than to accidents, or reducible to the category of substance. Thus the Eucharistic consecration of bread and wine produces a substantial change, called transubstantiation.
All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.
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