remetamorphosev.
/ˌriːmɛtəˈmɔːfəʊz/, /ˌriːmɛtəmɔːˈfəʊz/, /ˌriːmɛtəmɔːˈfəʊs/, U.S. /ˌriˌmɛdəˈmɔrˌfoʊz/, /ˌriˌmɛdəˈmɔrˌfoʊs/ transitive. To change (a person or thing) back into a previous or original form. Frequently with from, into.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > change back [verb (transitive)]
reversea1393
converta1425
undo1426
unmakec1450
recommencea1513
unweave1542
mismake1575
resubstantiate1584
unspin1587
remit1591
retrievea1596
remetamorphose1598
remorphize1603
reconvert1609
unlive1621
unravel1637
relapse1652
to bring about1680
uncoin1833
unpay1842
reset1846
revert1856
unweb1882
1598 J. Dickenson Greene in Conceipt 38 When Vlisses mates turn'd from men to beastes..they would in no sort be remetamorphosed.
1654 C. Hotham tr. J. Böhme Consolatory Treat. Four Complexions v. sig. B12v I have in me..the sign of the Cross, whereon Jesus strangled sin and death;..eat up this Recipe with the rest, and they may perhaps remetamorphose thee into an Angell.
1773 tr. C. M. Wieland Adv. Don Sylvio de Rosalva I. iii. xii. 246 She may presently be re-metamorphosed into a Peasant lass, at least, if not into a Princess.
1835 N. P. Willis Pencillings by Way (1844) cxxii. 193/2 Miladi's dressing-maid was remetamorphosed into an effeminate-looking fellow, and marched off to a new trial.
1883 Amer. Naturalist 17 1121 The central granite is more recent than the Archæan gneisses, as it faults them and in places has partially re-metamorphosed them.
1958 Ecology 39 209/1 The underlying rock is nearly all gneiss which is considered as Archean in age by some authors,..and as the Proterozoic Açungui series, remetamorphosed, by others.
1997 S. Clark Thinking with Demons v. xlii. 637 Six knights and six ladies have to be re-metamorphosed from the rocks and trees into which Circe has changed them.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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