transmogrify

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206. It is curious that Psalmanazar, in his Memoirs_, p. 101, uses the mongrel word transmogrify 1371] Taylor's Life of Reynolds_, ii.

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  1. transitive verb To change into a different shape or form, especially one that is fantastic or bizarre. See Synonyms at convert.

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  • How did this transmogrify into a story about the Arab press, rather than the air strike? —  The Lede
  • [It is more than ironic that even Hitler did not need two Reichstag fires to transmogrify the German Republic into the Nazi Empire].
  • Nonetheless, few doubt that clinical effectiveness results can very easily transmogrify into cost-effectiveness arguments. —  Reason Magazine - All Reason Articles from the Past Year: Page 1
  • You'd be surprised how jokes can transmogrify when you give them time to percolate. —  Sheldon Comic Strip: The daily webcomic by Dave Kellett
  • The market for news-and for ads-is trying to tell them it wants them to transmogrify into something new or, in the worst-case scenario, something gone. —  Adrian Monck
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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. Formerly also transmography; a substitute for transform, the termination -mography simulating a Greek origin (cf. geography, etc.), -mogrify a L. origin (cf. modify).
 

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/trænsˈmɑgrɪfai/
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