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.