Brewer's: Impanation

The dogma of Luther that the body and soul of Christ are infused into the eucharistic elements after consecration; and that the bread and wine are united with the body and soul of Christ in much the same way as the body and soul of man are united. The word means putting into the bread.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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