Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To transmute; transform; metamorphose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb Archaic To transmute; to transform; to metamorphose.
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- verb obsolete To
transmute ,change .
Etymologies
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Examples
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“I pray your pardon, reverend father, and my good lord,” replied that pink of courtesy; “I did but wait to cast my riding slough, and to transmew myself into some civil form meeter for this worshipful company.”
The Monastery 2008
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` ` Gramercy for thy sack, '' said Wamba; ` ` but think'st thou it is lawful for me to aid you to transmew thyself from a holy hermit into a sinful forester? ''
Ivanhoe 1892
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"Gramercy for thy sack," said Wamba; "but think'st thou it is lawful for me to aid you to transmew thyself from a holy hermit into a sinful forester?"
Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819
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"Gramercy for thy sack," said Wamba; "but think'st thou it is lawful for me to aid you to transmew thyself from a holy hermit into a sinful forester?"
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1801
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"I pray your pardon, reverend father, and my good lord," replied that pink of courtesy; "I did but wait to cast my riding slough, and to transmew myself into some civil form meeter for this worshipful company."
The Monastery Walter Scott 1801
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“Gramercy for thy sack,” said Wamba; “but think’st thou it is lawful for me to aid you to transmew thyself from a holy hermit into a sinful forester?”
Ivanhoe 2004
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