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metamorphize, v.
Also -ise.
[f. Gr. µετα- meta- + µορϕή form + -ize; after metamorphosis.]
= metamorphose v.
1591Shakes. Two Gent. ii. i. 32 And now you are Metamorphis'd with a Mistris, that when I looke on you, I can hardly thinke you my Master. 1596Harington Metam. Ajax 45 Masselyna..was worthie..to have bin metamorphized into Ajax. 1656S. Holland Zara (1719) 52 Metamorphize Men into Beasts, and Beasts into Men. 1748Anson's Voy. iii. viii. 383 The greatest part of them were strangely metamorphised by the heat of the hold. 1943W. Stevens Let. 29 Mar. (1967) 444 It would not help to change them to something else, any more than it would help to metamorphize this, that or the other (clouds into foam, living blossoms to blossoms without life, heat to a form of heat).
Hence metaˈmorphized ppl. a., metamorphizing vbl. n.
1613F. Robartes Revenue of Gosp. 96 They are not men of reason..but metamorphised wolues, dogs, and tygres. 1609J. Rawlinson Fishermen, etc. 8 The metamorphising of men into fishes. |