Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To transform from one species to another; change the species of.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To change from one species to another; to transform.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, transitive To
change from onespecies into another; totransform .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Of all the delusions wherewith he deceives mortality, there is not any that puzzleth me more than the legerdemain of changelings. 46 I do not credit those transformations of reasonable creatures into beasts, or that the devil hath a power to transpeciate a man into a horse, who tempted Christ (as a trial of his divinity) to convert but stones into bread.
Religio Medici 2007
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I do not credit those transformations of reasonable creatures into beasts, or that the Devil hath a power to transpeciate [66] a man into a Horse, who tempted Christ (as a trial of His Divinity,) to convert but stones into bread.
Religio Medici 1605-1682 1923
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I. 46] I do not credit those transformations of reasonable creatures into beasts, or that the devil hath a power to transpeciate a man into a horse, who tempted Christ (as a trial of his divinity) to convert but stones into bread.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643
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