单词 | metamorphoser |
释义 | metamorphosern. Now rare. A person who or thing which brings about a metamorphosis. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > [noun] > shaping > action or fact of changing shape > one who forschuppild?c1225 metamorphoser1576 the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [noun] > cause of transformation > of shape metamorphoser1576 skin-changer1869 shape-shifter1887 1576 G. Gascoigne Delicate Diet (1792) 14 What shall I name this man, but a beastly Metamorphoser, both of himself & of others? 1769 B. Alexander in Monthly Rev. 42 102 The impositions of a crafty metamorphoser. 1839 Lady Lytton Cheveley (ed. 2) III. i. 23 He was as good a metamorphoser of bipeds as the Yorkshire ostler was of quadrupeds. 1852 Amer. Whig Rev. May 446/2 O Time, what a metamorphoser thou art! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1576 |
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