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  • verb obsolete To transform, transmute.

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From trans- +‎ change.

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Examples

  • So that when youth failes in us, we feele, nay we perceive no shaking or transchange at all in our selves: which in essence and veritie is a harder death, than that of a languishing and irkesome life, or that of age.

    That to Philosophise Is to Learne How to Die. 1909

  • When youth fails in us, we feel, nay we perceive, no shaking or transchange at all in ourselves: which is essence and verity is a harder death than that of a languishing and irksome life, or that of age.

    Montaigne and Shakspere 1894

  • So that when youth failes in us, we feele, nay we perceive no shaking or transchange at all in our selves: which in essence and veritie is a harder death, than that of a languishing and irkesome life, or that of age.

    Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Various 1562

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