transmogrification

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The first thing I did when I got up this morning was look up the word transmogrification, because I awoke several times during the night wondering "What is transmogrification?"

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  1. The act of transmogrifying, or the state of being transmogrified. [Humorous and contemptuous.] But of all restorations, reparations, and transmogrifications, that inflicted upon the “Cnidian Venus” [an undraped statue, which has been partially draped in painted tin] of the Vatican is the most grotesque. The Nation, March 20, 1884, p. 250.

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  • The first thing I did when I got up this morning was look up the word transmogrification, because I awoke several times during the night wondering "What is transmogrification?" —  knitnut.net
  • (I wonder if someone at Microsoft thought of using the term transmogrification.) —  Developer.com
  • In your salon, the probable palm and rubber-plant give the impression of luxuriant Edenic flora, relatively speaking, and illustrate the transmogrification which is to allow M. Gaston Deschamps--critic of a "Temps" plus-que-passé--to announce to the wilderness (where he speaks familiarly of Chateaubriand), and to the Collčge de France, how well he can admire and understand a true poet For you are a true poet and I will declare it freely, not concerning myself more with the legends Parisians have the habit of weaving about every celebrity. —  Barks and Purrs
  • In your salon, the probable palm and rubber-plant give the impression of luxuriant Edenic flora, relatively speaking, and illustrate the transmogrification which is to allow M. Gaston Deschamps -- critic of a_ —  Barks and Purrs
  • You enjoy your morning. —  The Best Revenge
 

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