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metamorphotic, a.|mɛtəmɔːˈfɒtɪk|
[f. metamorphosis: see -otic.]
Pertaining to or based on metamorphosis; causing metamorphosis.
1816Bentham Chrestomathia Wks. 1843 VIII. 145 Metamorphotic, is the appellation by which these several branches of the Psychico-physical division of the aggregate system of sources of motion may be designated. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. 420 The Era of Swammerdam and Ray, or of the Metamorphotic System. 1827Carlyle Germ. Rom., Quintus Fixlein III. 282 To his eyes, this birth-day, in the metamorphotic mirror of his superstitious imagination..would burn forth like a red death-warrant. |