retransmutev.
/ˌriːtranzˈmjuːt/, /ˌriːtrɑːnzˈmjuːt/, /ˌriːtransˈmjuːt/, /ˌriːtrɑːnsˈmjuːt/, U.S. /ˌritrænzˈmjut/, /ˌritræn(t)sˈmjut/ transitive. To transmute (a person or thing) again or back to (also into) a new or former condition.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > be transformed [verb (intransitive)] > again
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1660 J. Howell Θηρολογια Table of Contents sig. c An Otter, who had bin first an Amstelian Mariner, and being proffer'd to be retransmuted to his first nature by Morphandra..yet he wold hearken to neither, [etc.].
a1711 T. Ken Preparatives for Death in Wks. (1721) IV. 46 God all their Shiftings can compute, And into Dew them re-transmute.
1826 J. Bentham Postscript Indications Ld. Eldon 7 (note) The third person is here all along retransmuted into the first.
1888 Proc. Royal Soc. 1887–8 43 140 This decimal fraction is consequently the measure of the closeness of the co-relation. We easily retransmute it into inches.
1933 Science 17 Mar. 274/2 The cosmic parade is finished. I now retransmute you from super-cosmic beings to primates on Planet Number Three.
1997 World Lit. Today (Nexis) 71 The whole axis of human time incessantly retransmuted into the space of the present and ultimately projected toward the future.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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