单词 | retransform |
释义 | retransformv. transitive. To transform (a person or thing) again; esp. to change back into (also to) a previous form or condition. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > transform [verb (transitive)] > again return1483 retransform1594 retransfigure1632 1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. D2v Hyalus beeing retransformed, had returned to grace Arcadia. 1600 C. Tourneur Transformed Metamorph. sig. D6 Eliza will you retransforme againe. 1634 T. Carew Cœlum Britanicum 3 Earthly beauties, which his raging Queene..turn'd to beasts, And in despight he retransform'd to Stars. 1660 J. Howell Θηρολογια 5 I am afraid that Morphandra hath a purpose to re-transform me. 1784 G. Collier Selima & Azor iii. v. 37 (stage direct.) Azor appears on a magnificent Throne, retransformed to his original Form. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. xiv. 259 How could I tell whether he was capable of being re-transformed? 1850 Sir A. Agnew in Mem. (1852) iv. 97 Men are retransformed to the image of God by the renewing of their minds. 1871 N. F. Cooke Satan in Society (1872) vii. 265 And so we will reconvert and retransform, and true progress shall consist in regress. 1933 Speculum 8 210 He catches the devil, who obligingly gives him a whip to retransform himself into a man. 1991 Nucl. Energy June 159/2 This is because the heat input from welding..can cause the forging material under the first layer to retransform when the second layer is applied. 2005 S. Hawking God created Integers 76 The language of proportions is turned into the language of fractions..; the results..are then used and the language retransformed..into the language of proportions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1594 |
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